A deadly virus spares only those of fairest skin, but humanity's fate rests in the hands of one black man. In 2019, attempts upon his life force controversial author and historian Professor Walter Banga to flee to Africa to hide amongst his distant relatives, the Mbuti pygmies. There, he is drawn into their desperate life and death struggle to survive. While hiding from a brutal Interhamwe militia, they unknowingly unleash a lethal, unstoppable virus upon humanity. Among a handful of survivors transported to CDC in Atlanta, Banga watches as the world around him falls into panic and chaos. Fearing for their lives, he and eleven other survivors escape to the wilderness hiding from a strange new world. Ruthlessly sought by white zealots as the survivors are forced to make their final stand, the outcome of which will change mankind forever....