New Yorkers race against time to save the city from a genetically engineered virus. What is this disease? Who made it? Can it be stopped? Inside the city, its sky blackened by the fires of its funeral pyres, men and women fight to find the answers, while selfless volunteers flood in from all over the world to join New Yorkers in their fight for survival. Once in, you cannot leave. With a quarantine of the city enforced by the Army, doctors in the ParkLab set up in Central Park try everything they can think of to cure people, and the U.S. President makes the most agonizing decision any...

A tribute by one of five siblings to two parents, to commemorate the first time the siblings will be together for over 3o years. The lives of the parents are explored, as well as a foray up the family trees, and stories about them recounted in a light-hearted way.