Pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy have brought America to its knees. Curtis, Japh, and Jool are film extras who survived being players in a deadly “live-action” film. It made them rich enough to escape the postapocalyptic hell that is Los Angeles, but their survival was not what Panoply Studios CEO Val Margolian had in mind, as it cost his company millions. Now he’s taking his revenge. The former extras’ new home of Sunrise, California, is soon subjected to Margolian’s invidious plan to punish them … and make a fortune doing it. With their haven besieged, the exiles are faced with a grim task: take back their town and freedom.