California\, Mojave Desert\, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam\, a forty-something door-to-door salesman\, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients\, yet everything seems deserted. What's more\, his wife won't answer his calls. It's as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down\, Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty\,...