Mortimer tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape f...Mortimer tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape filled with hollow reminders of an America that no longer exists.