Mario Zermeno

Isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns. His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation that attends his psychological meltdown.

Dante struggles to survive the powers that keep him repeating the cycle of poverty through the notorious Los Angeles streets of the Nickel. Known as the place where people go to die, there is no promise of redemption until he salvages a strange discarded Red Chair.