14 year-old Jeremy Barker is obsessed with Zombie films. He attends a strict all-boys Catholic school. His mother is an absentee pillhead, his brother is a self-diagnosed sex addict and his father an ex-Marine who disappears at night without explanation. Somehow, Jeremy navigates through his chaotic life with a code cobbled together from his favourite zombie films. When he discovers a homemade video in his father's closet of a man strapped to a bed, being prepped for some kind of surgical procedure, Jeremy is determined to unwravel this dark and disturbing mystery.