After dropping out of high school and getting kicked out of the house, a disenfranchised  teen moves in with Gina, an underage sex-worker and the teen’s only friend. While intitially  a refuge from the judgement of the outside world, Gina’s house becomes yet another  prison in the endless desert that entraps them. Throughout their time living together, they  are sucked deeper and deeper into the quicksand of addiction, eventually finding  themselves totally isolated. The other kids they used to party with have moved on. Their  families won’t speak to them unless they clean up their acts. All they have left is each other  and the vaguest outline of a plan. One day they’ll move somewhere where there’s water  and trees. The only other people they encounter with any regularity are Gina’s clients, who  include Officer Krum of the Fernley Police Department, amongst other supposedly  upstanding citizens. They are kept afloat by their dream of a lighter life, in a landscape as  different as could be from the arid expanse in which they’ve (mis)spent their youths, and  the unrelenting hope that the grass really is greener and they’re just a few lucky breaks  away from a one-way ticket out of this town. This work of fiction in verse explores alienation, addiction, the necessity of dreams, and the enduring power of friendship to get  you through your darkest times.