An earthquake exposes the avarice of the town's survivors; a woman remembers her first erotic experience with a soldier who may not be alive; the generation gap turns upside down when a father's bid for freedom shocks his adult children; a disembodied narrator attends to unfinished business, returning to earthly life five times, each time in a different avatar. Loot is a startling collection of ten stories, each a mirror of our interior lives.