02-08-2008, 03:28 PM
It sounds a good bit like the old Roger Zelazny book and, sort of, resulting film, Damnation Alley. It was a great book and a not so great movie.
http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater ... alley.html
http://www.badmovieplanet.com/3btheater ... alley.html