After container ships carrying black-market nuclear bombs are detonated in American port cities, millions are killed and the united states is thrown into stress.

In Greenwood, Nebraska, Paul Edwards learns about the devastating terrorist attacks on the news. As the energy grid falls, his fear is definitely magnified by the knowledge that his wife and child are a thousand miles apart in Atlanta.

When his prepper father-in-law, Buck, insists in being part of the rescue, things go from bad to worse. Paul and Buck have hated one another for years. Now, with deadly rays sweeping in in the coast and the guideline of regulation crumbling around them, both men must put aside their long-standing feud in a eager race to bring their family to safety . that is, if they don’t kill each other 1st.