During a time of waning global resources, a crew of young researchers travels into the future to escape an apocalypse before the shutdown of their time transfer project. They find that some type of disaster has depopulated the Idaho region and, by implication, the nation or perhaps the world. Facing an unknown, barren future of abandoned towns and deserted vehicles, void of radio signals or any signs of air or land traffic, they encounter an abandoned freight train filled with bagged bodies. Their further discoveries about humanity's future fate are somewhat less than rosy.