Into the Fracking Fields is based on these truths: fracking causes earthquakes, large earthquakes over 7 on the Richter Scale have occurred along the Mississippi River, there are large shale deposits in the Mid-South, and earthquakes have resulted in catastrophic nuclear disasters.

The kids in the border town watch the prisoners get off the trains and load up on the bus. Alice has heard the rumors of the people who stayed, their proximity to Nuclear One, their cancerous lumps. Her friend Carmen is driven to see the fracking pad where his father was killed – and Michael, unfortunately, is the only one that can get them there.