In 2040 the U.S. is in its twentieth year of Chinese Occupation. The only legal goods are food, water, and some hygiene products. Romo Tyrol and others like him provide the rest, for he is a ‘courier’ transporting those illegal goods like alcohol and cigarettes to the speakeasies of this New World Order, the Red Houses. Being a courier means being independent, being a rogue, it means living a life even more dangerous than a resistance fighter’s. And Romo has made enemies all around him in every strata of this new society.