Our story begins with Rusty Caler growing up in an average middle-class family in the year 2326. Rusty lives a life filled with friends and drama until he graduates and joins the military. While attending military training, the country declares war, calling all military to action. After the war, he returns to marry his high school sweetheart and gets a job at a factory. A little over a year later, his life is flipped upside down, sending him into a downward spiral. A group from the war wants something he has, hunting him down and finally offering him the most difficult choice he has ever had to make between life or death.