A Dismantled World... When a mutated virus escapes the university laboratory vault that it's been locked away in for more than 75 years, it initiates chaos unforeseen. In vain attempt to staunch the virus' spread, nuclear warheads are launched against the U.S., killing millions. The strike creates a thick corridor of radiation along the west coat and throws metric tons of ash into the atmosphere, and an already plague-ridden world is plunged into darkness. Sisters Evie and Julie Elderwood are living in a mid-apocalyptic world - if living it what you could call it. Fleeing home after watching everything fall apart and stretching toward rumors of a thriving sanctuary, they discover what it means to prop themselves up for the first time in their lives. Those infected with the virus are far from the only danger in a civilization turned wilderness.