A formerly acclaimed graphic novelist goes looking for true connection outside of his marriage, and over the fence.

Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. For others, it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drugs freely available as distractions.

When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.