In a world gone suddenly quiet, Leo, a pragmatic machinist with a damaged hand, finds himself leading an unlikely group of strangers stranded in an Ohio ValueMart. From this first fragile alliance, a new community is painstakingly built on the outskirts of a broken America. Through humor, hardship, and hard choices, they learn that survival is more than just enduring—it is the slow, deliberate work of creating a new culture from the ground up. It is the agreements we make, the stories we tell, and the bonds that hold when everything else has fallen away.
