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It's the future, and America's got problems. Tsunamis pummel the globe, strawberries are extinct, and China calls in its debt, taking humans in lieu of cash. When Karl builds a homemade spaceship to escape Earth and travel to a new planet, everyone wants to get on board. Among Karl’s followers is Sonia, a collections agent who rounds up people who can’t pay their debts. Sonia collects people like Malcolm, a poet whose debt lands him in China, doing hard labor. There, Malcolm toils under the supervision of Comrade Li, who believes all Americans waste their time “watching TV and eating puffy snacks.” Li’s interactions with Malcolm, however, lead to an unexpected understanding between the two. Against all odds, Karl builds the spaceship, but he refuses to leave Earth until he can convince his ex-girlfriend Christine to come with him. Christine works as a therapist at a cryonics clinic for reanimated people, where she tries to gently break the news to them that the planet is ruined (mainly thanks to their excesses in the 20th and early 21st centuries) and their chances for survival are slim. On the day before takeoff, Karl breaks into the clinic and demands that Christine come with him. He sets a fire, forcing Christine and all of the cryonics patients outside. Upon hearing that Karl has a spaceship, everyone but Christine decides to go with him. Karl tells them that they won’t have to worry about the destruction on Earth any longer: “Because we’ll be on a new planet! And we can start all over.”see less

It's the future, and America's got problems. Tsunamis pummel the globe, strawberries are extinct, and China calls in its debt, taking humans in lieu of cash. When Karl builds a homemade spaceship to escape Earth and travel to a new planet, everyone wants to get on board. Among Karl’s followers is Sonia, a collections agent who rounds up people who can’t pay their...see more