In the 22nd century, mankind has solved its problem with poverty: Exterminators hunt and kill those designated as "Losers." Rem Schlock is an Exterminator freshly assigned to the Angeles Sector. All he has ever known is hunting Losers. In Angeles Sector, the ruins of what was once a powerful metropolis housing millions of people, he finds himself on the trail of a mysterious "Leader of the Losers," often considered a fantasy amongst the Exterminator Corps. As he closes in on his prey, Rem begins to discover secrets of the origins of the Losers, their ties to the very fabric of his civilization and revelations that could destroy everything about his world he has always understood.