A wave of addiction and bloodshed consumes the remaining residents of White Deer, Maryland. The only thing more devastating than the opioids flowing through the streets are the brutalized corpses left behind.
For Michael, a kindhearted journalism student, something about White Deer entices him. Perhaps it's his instinctive need to rescue others, or maybe he hopes to process his beloved cousin's sudden overdose. He navigates a web of secrets, only to make a harrowing discovery: something is stalking and killing the townsfolk of White Deer. Only addicts are safe from its wrath. And Michael may be its next target.
Befriending an unlikely group-a bubbly waitress hiding a tortured past, an addict mother and her teenage son, a hardened drug dealer with a reputation for violence-Michael struggles for survival while trying to stop the carnage. Yet the most destructive demon of all may be hidden within everyone around him...including himself.