Awakening from a nap by a loud crash, a sixty-year-old Californian finds that civilization has disappeared, or perhaps never existed at all. In an effort to find some trace of his old world he travels by foot across a wild and dangerous new world. He is forced to live off the land and survive by his wits and with his only his two dogs and gun. The new wilderness is a very wild, dangerous, and lonely place. This story is about survival, in a new and terrifying world.