Buried underground, trapped between the military on one side and the dead on the other, the survivors sit and wait for something to happen. They know it is coming. With increasingly volatile forces on either side, they know that this fragile equilibrium cannot last indefinitely. Battered and beaten, these people are shells, some of them as cold and drained of emotion as the bodies outside. They are empty and lost, drifting without purpose or direction. The uncertainty surrounding everything they do makes it almost impossible for them to function as normal human beings. Their past lives are gone forever. Their futures are dark, bleak and uncertain.
    A dramatic and violent series of events leaves the group on the run again. Ready to fight for the little they still have, they move through what is left of the world with a new found strength and determination. But in the rotting remains they are forced to face the past and everything they have lost and left behind. For some this personal battle is harder and more painful than the constant battle against the hordes of the dead.

The bodies are changing.
    Struck down by an infection of unparalleled strength and ferocity, billions of people are dead. But the disease has left part of the brain untouched, and despite their deteriorating physical condition, the creatures are regaining control. First basic instincts returned - little more than just the ability to see, hear and move again. As time has progressed, however, rudimentary thought patterns and behaviours have become apparent. Knowing that they resemble the survivors in some ways, the bodies continue to gravitate towards them. Some simply stand and stare at the living as if expecting them to bring some release from their bizarre and hellish existence. Many more seem to view the survivors as a threat. Increasingly the dead defend themselves with savage violence - base emotion driving them to secure their own self-preservation by tearing the living apart.
    Now the bodies are changing again.
    The most developed and least decayed of them are beginning to think.

The soldiers know that they will die. There will be no cure and no salvation. They are alone.
    The military's options are limited and bleak - stay underground until their supplies run out or risk life on the surface. But being above ground will give them no more freedom than they have in the underground complex. Relying on protective suits and breathing apparatus to stay alive, life out in the open for any of them will be brutal, uncomfortable, claustrophobic and short.
    Death is inevitable, but no longer final.

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