In the filthy, fetid urban wilds of New York City, where pestilence flourishes and life is a constant struggle with the darkest forces of evil, the soulless, beaten-down residents are waging a war with the burgeoning rat population--and losing! A harrowing--and darkly comic--documentary account of what some humans have actually done to reclaim their meager, overpriced abodes from the rodent interlopers.