Using a Super 8 camera, a zombie movie is being made by several youngsters in 1979 Ohio. In the middle of filming, even the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and therefore are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe wasn't any crash, as a set of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of the kiddies of one, hunts for its truth behind the crash.