Summary

Spaz lives in a world where territories are divided up and ruled by latch bosses. His particular territory is run by people called Bangers. People escape their dreary surroundings by using probes, which are needles they stick into their brains that give them hallucinations. Spaz can't use them because they give him seizures which will kill him. Spaz is thinking back on his life and trying to figure out how to record what happened to him. He was inspired to do so by a man named Ryter, whom he was sent to rob by the Bangers, and who ended up changing his life.

Spaz searches for Ryter in the Stacks, where people without any other home live. Spaz works for a gang boss, Billy Bizmo, who has taken a strange liking to him. Spaz steals things for Billy, even though...