The light of freedom. That is all Jennifer remembers before she escaped a secret compound deep in the wooded terrain of Arkansas. Eluding her captures, she finds a world in ruins. Abandoned cars on the interstate act as tombs for the dead, and many of those that are living have been mentally altered by what the survivors call the SA8 virus. Jennifer must persevere through the infected camp in Texarkana. She must also deal with the dispute of the survivors as to whether she will be allowed into their community when her blood tests come back as inconclusive, and the one man who is willing to...

Captured in Texarkana, Jennifer finds herself in the hands of a ruthless examiner that will stop at nothing to find the cure to the SA8 virus. Coerced into a sinister game of her willfully complying to resistance testing in exchange for knowledge about her past, Jennifer confronts the dark truths about the exploitative history of human existence and begins to blame herself for the death of her friends. Can she find the strength and determination to carry on as she is faced with a new virus created by her captors or has she given up on society and its continual efforts to destroy itself?...