At about six o'clock in the morning, long before light broke
on a cold November day in 2014, I
pushed through the Beijing station and fought my way onto a
crowded train.
The chance presents itself when her bestie / trust fund brat Sydney (Emily Meade) tells her about Nerve, a new online game sweeping the nation, which prompts players to participate in boundary -
pushing stunts — anything from the innocent (mooning
crowds, singing in public, kissing strangers), to the more hardcore (dangling off a crane, lying
on train tracks and walking across a suspended ladder bridge).