"Hold your breath.
Don't laugh. Don't sob.
You're wasting your air."
In a broken world in the near future, breathable air is a gift to have. Air is distributed evenly among citizens and if they go over their limit, they could be prosecuted. Anyone labeled will have to die as they are wasting a valuable resource.
Meet our protagonist, a young man tasked to assist in disposing those who violate these rights. Every day is clear and simple for him. He doesn't question anything and tries his best not to go over his breath intake. He's a model citizen.
But what happens when a peculiar young lady he meets on a whim manages to change his ways? Will he follow her into the steady decline of carelessness, savagery, and even thievery-all antics that could possibly kill what's left of the human race? Or will he choose the way things "should be" and stop the madness while he can?(CC) Attrib. NonComm. NoDerivs