Sixteen-year-old Joanna has been residing along with her overbearing Aunt Martha in a low-income NYC tenement constructing ever since a violent outburst left her preventing a sense she will be able to solely describe because the "darkness." Little did she know that weeks after shifting in, a organic menace from the Soviet Union would go away the constructing boarded up and the tenants locked inside. It has been one month since they had been first sequestered. With meals dwindling and Martha's controversial position as chief increasing, Joanna realizes that she should face each her darkness and her aunt to be able to save the tenants. However can she tackle the management with out letting the darkness take over her completely?