As the uprising of the undead sweeps the streets of New York City, a small family fights through skyscrapers and schools to find one another. A special-ops military unit discovers that the cover-up of a chemotherapy nanovirus experiment has gone awry. As a disgraced researcher becomes entangled in the mystery of Medora, North Dakota, the President fights off a modern age of imperialism. As policemen flee from children and mothers brandish hacksaws, the country's fate will depend on the civil war between humankind and the dead. Welcome to Medora, population zero and spreading.