In a world already desolated by an avian influenza, paramedic Alex Gauthiers twenty-one-year-old daughter, Gemma, afflicted by the so-called Lucy virus, is devolving-turning into a proto human-while forest fires besiege the valley where they live. When Gemma asks Alex to kill her-perform a mercy killing-when she is no longer human, he finds himself making a promise he doesnt want to keep. At the other end of the valley, Veronica "Ronnie" Sapriken, the only remaining RCMP officer, is
struggling to keep the peace in a disintegrating town while the rest of the world is falling apart, only to...