The year is 1937, and its been several months following the creation of a cordon on the outskirts of Providence, Rhode Island. Exact information on what has occurred to the tiny city and state is unknown, and various government agencies have propped up their own stories as to what. Influenza outbreaks, rioting and so on justify a long and extensive series of wired off sections of the entire state of RI. No one has been able to breach this cordon and live to tell the tale, until one man does. Private detective Clark Breckenridge has been given a job to locate the heir of the Moore family fortune, Logan Moore who has gone missing in the Providence Cordon Zone. He knows nothing more than that, and he will soon learn the dreaded truth behind why this entire state has gone under.