A young woman struggles to reunite with her estranged father. The only problem? She has to get through the zombie apocalypse to do it. A Colonel in the U.S. Army, Steven Bennett represents the last best hope for his daughter, Nicole, but they don't speak to each other much, and when they do, feelings get hurt. When the dead started rising and eating the living, her father called from his secure military compound buried deep in a mountain in Colorado and urged her to come to him. Now Nicole Bennett must try to remember some of the things her father taught her if she is to make it. Though not her first choice, along the way she gathers a rag-tag group of survivors and together they battle across the Deadlands, formally known as the United States of America.