Back in 1997, Zak McKracken was a struggling writer for the sleazy San Francisco tabloid The National Inquisitor. San Francisco was getting more and more expensive and Zak couldn’t afford his rent, plus his boss was constantly threatening to fire him. His overbearing Jewish mother was also constantly trying to get him to meet the daughters of her friends and disapproved of the girls Zak dated. However one night Zak had a dream where he and a strange woman built a device that stopped aliens