Jack is seventeen years old and lives with his mother on a farm in a depressed area. Their life is simple and monotonous. There is no work in the area, the only saving grace is that the area in which they live was once the site of a great atomic war and now the entire small population of the wasteland is engaged in the extraction and resale of two-hundred-year-old war trophies. There are no prospects for the young man here, and Jack, like many other local boys, dreams of only one thing - to enlist in one of the corporate armies fighting for the bowels of mineral-rich planets.