Forty-two-year-old Louis Patterson is a man destined for a quiet life of desperation until his house is swallowed by a sinkhole one day-with him in it. From nine to five, Louis works the customer service counter at the Discount Dollar Warehouse, a job he had to take after being laid off from a canning factory in town. Then one day, his wife Mia, who had a hard time dealing with his PTSD after he returned from Afghanistan, walks out on him and takes their two children to her sister's house. Louis's misery is further compounded with the one-year anniversary of his best friend's death who died while they were deployed to Afghanistan-a death that Louis feels responsible for. Meanwhile, outside of town, a hydraulic fracking company triggers an earthquake which causes a sinkhole to appear under Louis's house. While rescue workers race to save Louis, who is trapped at the bottom of the house, he retraces the events of his life and realizes that his life as a whole has been greater than the sum of its parts. With time and options running out, will Louis be rescued or will the earth entomb him forever?.