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 protection: 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.