in 1912, Washed up private detective Booker Dewitt is hired to find a girl in the floating city of Columbia, headed by the enigmatic and powerful Father Comstock, a self proclaimed "prophet". But all is not as it seems, with prominent figures in the city vying for power, namely The Founders, a nationalist xenophobic religious organization and the Vox Populi, a grassroots anarchic collective. Each one have their own agendas for Booker and for Elizabeth, a young woman who does not know the limits of her own god-like powers...yet. The two must survive the city and its various inhabitants, including the man-machine abominations known as "Handymen" and Elizabeth's guardian, the ever looming Songbird. Along the way, the dark secrets of Columbia will be revealed, and with them the pasts of Elizabeth and Booker.
