The famous streets of Las Vegas have gone quiet: the crowds of eager visitors replaced by darkness, silence, and dust. When the Visitors arrived, unheralded and unfamiliar, they met with world leaders and held press conferences: assuring everyone of great things to come. But - for some reason - Noah Webster didn't believe a word of it. He found a hiding place in the mountains secure enough to protect him, and has worked his way back into the city to discover that he might possibly be the only person remaining in Las Vegas - possibly the only person in America - possibly the only person in the world. This is knowledge he does his best to cope with until ... someone else turns up. But certainly not kind of person he'd hoped for - just as she's not very impressed with him, in the beginning. A record of human survival. A tale of religious faith coping with disaster. An unusual kind of love story. A road trip into the unknown. "True Understanding" - the Great American Novel revisited.