In a Lego universe, the wizard Vitruvius is blinded when he fails to protect a superweapon called the Kragle (a misreading of Krazy Glue) from the evil and maniacal Lord Business, but prophesies that a person called The Chosen One will find the Piece of Resistance capable of stopping the Kragle. Lord Business believes Vitruvius simply made up the prophecy, and kicks him away.
Eight and a half years later, in Bricksburg, an optimistic but unimaginative construction worker named Emmet Brickowski comes across a woman searching for something at his construction site. Emmet falls into a pit and finds the Piece of Resistance. Compelled to touch it, he experiences visions, including one of a giant called "the Man Upstairs" and passes out. He awakens in the custody of Bad Cop, Business's lieutenant, and discovers that the Piece of Resistance is attached to his own back.
