Cypress is a curious little town located in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It has grown still stranger lately, however, as a new leader called "The One" has come to dominate and distort every fiscal and social facet of this place. Enter Stephens Hill. Stephens is about as uninteresting a young man as there ever was. In fact, his grandest dream consists of simply escaping Cypress, once and for all, in order to make something of his life elsewhere in the world. However, The One has very distinct plans for all of the inhabitants now residing in Cypress. As far as he is concerned, no treason related to defecting from his light-less "paradise" will be tolerated in the slightest (lest such a tyrant wish to face The One's "Factory Games"). Stephens, as he has begun to enter into the bleakest reality he has known to date, cannot avoid his desire to be liberated from the prison of Cypress all-the-more. Let the games begin.