PLOT SUMMARY
Our protagonist, Sean, a sticks-converted urbanite with a wife and a child soon on the way, desires to cut his rural roots and ready for his future. With the recent death of his already widowed mom, Sean finally returns to his childhood home. His bootstrapped parents built those four walls and a roof from the ground up on a sprawling five-acre, mid-Ohio property with little but a pond, a few scattered neighbors and countryside for miles and miles in either direction. Although memories in this home abound, Sean’s sole intention now is to sell it.
When he arrives, Sean is greeted by his only living blood relation; an estranged, ragtag brother named Luke who is outside the house sitting and drinking in the winter chill. Sean and Luke begin the overdue process of reconnecting but shared grief, terror and obligation catch up with the prompting of a zombie apocalypse. Every moment Sean stays, the certainty of his future wanes, and the brothers are both eventually forced to confront the sacrifices they are willing to make for family.