In the future, fossil fuels are depleted, and seas have risen, engulfing whole coastal cities. Society has been split, and life for the lower class is brutal. Nailer, a skinny teen, lives a hand-to-mouth existence in a shanty with his violent drug-addicted father.
Getting paid starvation wages, every day Nailer shimmies through the duct work of the beached wrecks of ancient oil tankers, scavenging for steel, copper, and any residual oil, a dirty and
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dangerous job. He has to make his quota every day. If he fails, he and his team will be fired and forced to beg, steal, or sell their own body parts on the streets. He has to turn over everything he finds to his crew boss.
One day after a hurricane wipes out his village, he and his friend Pima discover a modern high-tech schooner, newly beached. Knowing that they have made a real lucky find, they are intent on keeping this salvage for themselves.
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