Wilkes is alone, struggling to survive on the island once known as Great Britain, thirty-six years after the zombie apocalypse devastated the world.
As the young woman makes her way along the ruined landscape, she stumbles across a backpack filled with journals written by a man she will never meet {Talbot}, but who will alter the course of her life nonetheless. Through these yellowed pages, Wilkes relives the worst that life had to offer at the very end of humanity's reign.