Home Grown

When corporate America collapses under the weight of automation and greed, millions are left behind — including Macallister “Cal” Monahan, a laid-off middle-aged accountant in Houston with no savings, no prospects, and nothing left to lose. Desperate to survive, Cal turns his spare bedroom into an illegal cannabis grow room. What begins as a practical act of rebellion soon evolves into a meticulous ritual of light, pH, and obsession. As Cal’s secret garden flourishes, so does his isolation — until Ruth, his enigmatic upstairs neighbor, starts to take notice. Through the humid haze of grow lights and paranoia, Home Grown explores the quiet desperation of the new American underclass — men and women caught between economic collapse, moral compromise, and the primal need to create something living from the ruins. Both a how-to manual for survival and a meditation on work, guilt, and freedom, Rob Scott’s Home Grown is a darkly humorous, sharply detailed story of one man’s attempt to reclaim control in a world that has optimized him out of existence.