When a pandemic nearly wipes out mankind, a young man sets out to rebuild society in this post-apocalyptic tale of love, friendship and survival. Ash wakes from his illness to find the human race has almost perished at the hands of a deadly outbreak. After a lonely and grueling winter, he travels south in search of a new home. Along the way, he befriends a young woman, Marion, and takes in an orphaned child and a wolf cub, but they become separated. While Ash fights to establish a new community, Marion struggles to find her lost friends, as she attempts to reach the village of Ashes.