On the most well liked day of the yr, an unknown virus spreads all through inner-city Philadelphia. The contaminated victims, crazed by dehydration, start attacking different residents of the neighborhood in ugly methods. When the army is introduced in to comprise the state of affairs, however notice they can not give you a vaccine shortly sufficient, they fence off the world and let everybody die. A gaggle of locals, caught within the basement of their constructing, behind the fences, and separated from their members of the family, band collectively to attempt to survive.