They were all married to women they loved and had children by them. And that was that. No questions have been asked, no answers have been forthcoming, and no one is looking for answers.
In the war-ravaged ruins of New York City, a few remaining men have survived, but most of them are too damaged to be of any use. In the rubble beneath the city's streets, they have banded together to form a council of sorts. One of the survivors has taken it upon himself to tell stories from the past.
He reads from a book he found in a burned-out library, a book called "Last Man Standing" by a man named Viktor E. Frankl.