An influenza plague decimates humanity…

A guy loses his wife and baby girl…

Six years after a pandemic devastates the population, former rock star Chris Cost finally makes it from New York to Britain to reunite along with his brother. His passing leaves him scarred, in body and mind, by contact with humankind at its most desperate and dangerous. But another ordeal awaits him beyond the urban ruins, within an idyllic nation refuge where Chris fits a female, Pauline, who is largely untouched by the world’s horrors. Together, Chris and Pauline undertake the most challenging element of Chris’s journey: confronting grief, violence, and the man Chris is becoming. They’ll discover whether the human being spirit is capable of making it through and loving once again in this darker, harder globe.