"Earth, 2073"-In the last seventy years, the world's population has doubled in size, exceeding ten billion inhabitants. The United Nations, now a global government, has exhausted its ability to reverse this drastic population explosion. A UN vice-president, Jordan Stanovich, provides a chilling plan to control population growth-an execution lottery to annihilate people from certain areas of the globe. Despite the extreme public outcry against the plan, Stanovich succeeds in implementing it.

Tony Fisher and his ex-Navy buddies secretly begin preparations to stop the lottery and, if...