202X – The City of Los Angeles and its environs are no more. Whatever remains of the colossal urban sprawl is now the Southern California Exclusion Zone. Survivors of the Zone's formation and glimpses gained since tell of impossible things within.

None of that matters to a clerk, hired to process the papers of those who would dare the Zone and film their last testaments in case they, like those before them, fail to return. But one can't work alongside the Zone and remain entirely unchanged...