The Island is hopelessness. The Island is death. And it is to this place that all the elderly and infirm are shipped, the scapegoats for the collapse of society. There's no escape, not from the punishment satellites that deliver instant judgement for any crime - including trying to get off the Island - and not from the demons that come on foggy nights, when the satellites are all but blind.But when one of the Island's inhabitants, aging and "Big Guy and " Clancy, finds a network of tunnels beneath the waste, there is suddenly hope, for love, for escape . . . and for the chance to fight back.