The economic divide has grown larger—much larger. So large, in fact, that in 2025 the political bodies of Jersey City, Newark, and New York City have joined forces to create a series of "transition camps" for all residents of these areas who earn under $100,000 a year to move into. They are given a choice: move in, or leave America. With that, millions of people are transitioned into their new lives, altering them in ways they, as well as the government, would not have believed.

Landing in Millstone, the camp on the outskirts of Kearney, NJ, 18-year-old Trane Wilson comes of age within this environment, one which is both submissive and fearful (and worse, easily distracted) and yet not without a deep sense of community.On his first day in the camp, he meets three characters who join him for his four-year journey within the camp's gates: the loveable and goofy Tonka; the sly Javier, who always has a plan; and the stonewall that is Ish. Written ten years after he left the camp (and America) for good, this memoir is a powerful and uncompromising meditation a culture's social, economic, and spiritual state.