John Holland has lost everything. His house has just been destroyed by a series of storms that have battered the Californian coast, his wife is spiraling into the depths of dementia, his daughter lives in a squat in the derelict remains of Detroit and his son has deserted from the army still entangled in an endless war in Iraq.



His life parallels the death of his country. Burdened by debt, by a Government unable and unwilling to act, by a generation that is consuming their way to the grave leaving a wounded planet behind.



One man has a plan, a last attempt to gain time so that the most powerful nation on earth can regain its position. One last go, without rules, without ethics – all or nothing.



But at what price?