'Thousands of people killed and hundreds of thousands injured in the tragedy in San Francisco after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hits the coast, at 2:30 am in the morning. Evacuation's are being made as terrifying fires spread throughout the city and suburbs, burning it's path as it goes. Tsunami warnings are in place, but as it goes, seems like no water has hit the once happy coast, it is only described as one of the worlds biggest disasters.
'The people of San Francisco head for the mountains or other cities as nothing is left of them there, Pet owners look for their beloved pets fearing they were frightened and ran away. Many people are searching for their realitives, Mother's looking for their children. They take what they can from the wreckage of houses.'
'Cracks in the earth makes it hard to walk, not sure where to step. This is like de ja vú as something like this happened hundreds of years ago, but this time, its worse.'
'A few months ago they would never perdicted this, terrifying disaster.'
When the most destructive earthquake in America's history happens just south of St. Louis, seventeen-year-old Fallon Connelly is already on shaky ground. Her mom's alcoholism caused her parents to split and now her dad is constantly on the road, trying to make enough money to pay child support. It's all for nothing anyway, since his money just ends up in her mom's liver. At the same time, Fallon's best friend Cal Dorsey starts to act on his feelings for her and she wishes like hell he'd leave their relationship alone.
So when the fault line beneath their feet tears apart, without knowing the fate of her mom and barely escaping the inferno in her high school, she and Cal form a small group and set out on foot across a city in ruins. Fallon and Cal witness the backward-running Mississippi river, encounter city-wide panic that escalates into rioting, and examine what they really mean to each other. In the end, it'll take luck and a will to survive in order to make it home. Whatever home means.