Our story follows Nick, a midnight blogger and investigative journalist who gets pulled into one of the many tendrils of an international conspiracy. When a mysterious illness strikes his hometown of Chicago, Nick’s best friend goes missing. Nick gets thrown in with unlikely companions in his search for answers. After asking one too many questions, they find themselves on the run. Caught between revolutionaries and agents of a shadow government, Nick discovers that nearly everything he has assumed about the world is proving to be wrong. As he closes in on the truth, a government cover-up seeks to contain a world-shaking secret and somehow quarantine the city before a deadly pandemic sweeps over the earth and eradicates humanity.