Emerald Cities completing the trilogy is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune. Her drunken dad still stuck in his Santa suit from the local Christmas pagent follows and soon comes in contact with the "new dark ages" of 1984. Juxtapositions of "on-the street" interviews (by Willie Boy Walker) punk performances by bands Flipper and The Mutants TV shows of past-life hypnotism and nuclear destruction and a crazed ex-con all finally intermix with the characters' own sagas.