Teaching can be tough, particularly in the inner cities, but social workers find themselves in the gritty front line of societal collapse.

That's the seeds of a societal collapse.

They are a bulwark against societal collapse.

Set in the near future of an unnamed city after a societal collapse, the story follows the lives and loves of a handful of survivors.

Some doomers call for making active survivalist preparations to be ready to survive a protracted societal collapse.