American Dust follows the trail of Tyler Hartman, a young man struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world; a loner estranged from his family who he has not seen since the bombs dropped twenty years prior, and only dreams of locating his kin and returning to his childhood home. However, lacking the supplies and survival skills necessary to travel more than five miles from the settlement he resides in, he is cursed to remain behind the heavily armored walls of Harvard, the final example of civilization in New England. That is, until opportunity arises within an interaction in the settlement’s market with a heavily armed man, holding the title of ‘Collector’, Harvard’s celebrated heroes who venture hundreds, if not thousands of miles beyond the community’s walls on intrepid expeditions…