Charlie Zero's Last-Ditch Attempt

Charlie Zero has finally arrived to where he doesn’t want to be, as he begins his journey to find the woman of his dreams by starting out at dead last on society’s totem pole. He lives in a town that expects the economy to pick up from wealthy people moving in from the nearby city, but prosperity never comes. Instead, men like Charlie Zero are stuck in low-wage, dead-end jobs that offer no hope of surviving if he ever wants to get married and live the subrurban American dream.

But there’s suddenly new hope for Charlie when he meets a wealthy and successful mobster at a local bar late one night, and with his help, Charlie hopes to get the woman his in love with by associating with him. He finds out, though, that even with the mobster’s help, he is arrested, loses his job, and is generally tortured by his lot in life and the threadbare existence that comes with it. His only real choice, he decides, is to take action and kill the man who is most responsible for it all: the mobster himself.