When an unprecedented global epidemic abruptly elevates household paper rolls into the world's most valuable currency, suburban life dissolves into frantic barter. Charlie becomes obsessed with fortifying his home and hoarding enormous sanitary supplies, a paranoid crusade that alienates his skeptical partner and draws unwanted neighborhood envy.
As marauding raiders target his basement vault, Charlie constructs ingenious domestic booby traps and dons makeshift hardened pulp armor to protect his prized hoard. When violent clashes reveal an unexpected medical breakthrough among his rivals, Charlie must decide whether clinging to his bizarre wealth matters more than helping humanity heal.
