Under the autocratic rule of a federal Europe, all prisoners are press-ganged into the military to fight an incredible war against and unbelievable enemy: unearthly monsters from another dimension known as the 'Glimmer. ' As the reluctant troopers soon learn, the Glimmer is ruled by the 'Geist' - the malevolent spawn of hell that can rend, kill, and destroy humans in a thousand different ways. The only way to survive is to be meaner, fight dirtier, and kill faster than the Geist