Set in Upstate South Carolina in the months leading up to Y2K,Challengerfollows twelve-year old Junah Simmons as he confronts the iconic catastrophes of youthfalling in love, finding ones self, and surviving public schoolwhile wrestling with the notion that the world itself could end in December. Junahs odyssey through this existential landscape is kicks off with an assignment from his teacher to convert a shoebox into a time capsule and fill it with things that tell what it was like to be alive in Carolina at the end of the world.