While a virus that allows the dead to reanimate threatens to bring the world to its knees, the scientist behind the virus entrusts his cataclysmic findings to Katya Nevin, a disturbed former war correspondent turned anchorwoman at W.W News. While she and the rest of her squad watch the collapse of civilization unfold via video feeds from around the world, a lethal special agent climbs the building floor by floor with the sole purpose of ensuring her quiet. Katya must overcome terrible anxiety and learn to lead in order to make it out of the studio and into a terrifying new world where only the dead survive.