Jason Bond is just a regular guy working two jobs to make it when, one night, while working on his nightly security guard job, he is overcome by a strange white light while inside the warehouse. Once it goes away, he finds himself five hundred years in the future, where the small town of Rutherfordton has been replaced by the megalopolic metropolis known as Rutherford City, capital of a nation known as the Republic of Carolina. As Jason struggles to adjust to life in the future, he finds that not everything is as it seems, and that his past has had a strange effect on the future.