Bellport, 1987, as the future once looked: aerocabs over rain-slick streets, chrome, neon and screeching modems. At midnight Halcyon Telecom switches every phone in the city to its gleaming new system. Danny Rook, eighteen, an electronics whiz who hasn't said a word online since his lineman father died, receives a strange transmission, and an unmarked van parks outside. A retro-futurist thriller of bulletin boards, switchboards and one voice the city needs to hear.