After an outbreak of a new strand of the rabies virus turns the population into crazed, bloodthirsty cannibals, a young doctor finds himself separated from his son, with the rapidly decaying city and countryside standing between them.
A young woman seeks sanctuary at a remote family home, where she struggles to cope with her sister's paranoid schizophrenia and her own sanity before it tears them apart.
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
