A 1997-ne'er-do-well-Gen-Xer, living in his parents' basement, is compelled by his father to get a job or get out. The sluggard's father answers a random classified for a nightshift warehouse worker, setting up an interview for his couch-potato offspring. To make his father happy, the son takes the interview and is hired the same day, only to find out after it's almost too late, that he now works in a warehouse-time-vortex where people unknowingly pay for their gravest flaws in a neverending shift.