In the smoldering ruins of a once-prosperous coastal city, five children and eleven adults forge an uneasy alliance, forced into brutal skirmishes when a fresh mutation allows the infected horde to move by night and day. As supplies dwindle and treachery festers within their ranks, a battle-hardened schoolteacher must lead the young and old through a labyrinthine sewer network—where shrieking corpses hunt by sound—offering a slender chance at evacuation before the city’s last safe zone is overrun.