Robert Getham, a former runner from Newark, is searching for a cure to save himself from becoming a mindless zombie in a post-apocalyptic USA. The cure, if it even exists, is in Trenton, 50 miles away, on a path fraught with the same monsters he's trying to avoid Turning into. Meanwhile, his oldest son, Jason, must contend with his brother and sister in the Pod. This, while standing up to a bully and trying to build a relationship with the beautiful Emily Lanuici; all with his fractured relationship with Robert hanging in the air.