"Where once was a beautiful wood now stands a desolate field smothered in ash and garbage, and here a young man named Waller has terrorizing encounters with grotesque figures named 'the garbagemen.' As Waller fixates on these desperate men who eke out a living by rooting through their nation's waste, he imagines they are also digging through its past as their government erases its history and walls itself off from the outside world"--