Annihilators have come down from space to invade earth and young James Halton is left alone in the ruins of New York. Alone and afraid, James swears vengeance against the annihilators and all other machines.
Daniel Schultz crawls across the floor after being forcefully ejected from his uplink pod. He finds himself old and withered: alone in a hostile world. Unable to remember his purpose, he must travel across the ruins of New England to confront the guilt that he was so desperate to avoid.