Randy James is 38, single, and plays video games in his parents' garage. In the 80s, he would have been labelled a loser, but the year is 2030, his parents are dead, and his garage is located on the outskirts of a massive fracking field known as the Energy Corridor. The Corridor started off as a few isolated drilling sites in the 2000s, but has grown into a massive, high-tech city of energy that, like an insatiable metallic organism, has consumed the rural hinterlands of the Rust Belt. Randy has spent his adult life comfortably ignoring the environmental catastrophe that exists just beyond...