Lea, a disturbed teenager, copes with depression and bullying as best as she can. Constantly butting heads with her single, struggling mother, she is driven into a bad group of so called friends. When she witness a murder, she finds

Claire, a lone girl treks the new, dangerous wasteland, ravaged by famine and a virus, in search of food and clean water.

Caring for a mysterious root she discovered, Jude begins to suffer horrid hallucinations and has to fight for her life, and sanity, as lines between reality and sheer madness begin to blur