For years, the threat of nuclear attack was always present. Elementary school students and teens were taught: "The flash means act fast. Duck and cover!" But what happens after the blast? The year is 1955, and Del Reeves dreams of ditching small-town life for a life in movies---beyond projecting them at the local drive-inches But when Cold War nightmares become a reality. Del discovers that the film genres he'd grown up watching are more real than he could have ever imagined. A sudden nuclear exchange obliterates the US, and only the kids who hid under their school desks are spared. These teens now find themselves the lone survivors in a strange and wild new '50's America.--