'Do you believe in fate?' 200 years after a lethal virus has driven all life into the caverns of the Underground, the surface above is still unfit for any life. So we're told. Fate and a drug overdose collides Hamish with Zonbi-the anarchistic and slipshod faction of jackasses who deny this government-issued truth. In searching for methods for life's return to the surface, they discover something monstrous and transcendent; life is already there. And it has been waiting.