Ian endures punishing labor in poisoned industrial wastelands, scavenging scrap metal every day to feed the adoptive family he cherishes above his own life. His devotion turns into nightmare when an authoritarian warlord captures him, and his treacherous kin happily trade him away for a single consignment of military food rations.
Dumped into a mass grave when acute radiation sickness leaves him near death, Ian survives against impossible odds, discarding every shred of former innocence. Armed with hardened combat skills and burning hatred, he infiltrates the warlord's compound to settle accounts with both the tyrant and the relatives who betrayed him.
