2007
It's 2007. The world is about to change. The first ever "smart-phone" although not yet called that, is about to be released despite many scandals surrounding it.
Mismanagement and abuse has caused James' home town to be placed in martial law. He and his classmates are locked in at school under military surveillance.
Despite the violence and political unrest there is a feeling that something even more sinister is waiting just out of consciousness. Some inhuman threat plots about while the world is distracted.