On the broken roadways of North Jersey, humanity's last stand breaks down in a world where the dead transform into unstoppable Variants. Mike Benko, a soldier on the brink of becoming a monster, and Jenna Gray, a survivor tormented by a past that has been lost, struggle to survive. A desperate government unleashes a nuclear requiem to halt the apocalypse as the Variant C horde, commanded by the vicious Tobey Colins, storms the last remaining relics of civilization. The conflict concludes in echoes of destruction rather than triumph, from the ruins of Hackensack to the boiling Hudson. Jenna drives west alone on Route 80, searching for an elusive horizon—evidence that the human spirit endures even in a world consumed.