During the Holocaust of 1940 the Jews were targeted. In the Holocaust of 2015, everyone is targeted. In a world of anarchy and human/alien segregation, over half the population is now children and teens due to a global genocide. Of the world population, only ten percent is still human.

16-year old Cassidy Pait is of the minority, born into an ill-fated generation dubbed “the slumbaby population.” As a whole, these kids have been categorized as savage, unruly outcasts and are segregated from the rest of the world because of it.

In Cassidy’s ward of the dilapidated country, Cadena, the residents would rather resort to cannibalism than to face certain death. Several years after an extraterrestrial government invasion has left every human, prisoner to this one country world, the citizens of Cadena have had to do anything it takes to survive the perish. Orphaned and left to fend for herself while struggling to care for her younger sister, Cassidy has cheated and conned her way through life for the sake of survival.

Of Cadena’s only nine cites, she has had the misfortune of being exiled to the most dangerous city of all; the Fourth Ward, a place not fit for any life form to live in. In this desolate little city, every child and teenage resident is orphaned, poor and slowly dying of starvation as part of an elaborate government plot to exterminate them all.

Something has changed in Cassidy’s dying community and a countrywide lockdown has every resident chained inside their wards for the whole winter. Just as Cassidy feared, any hope for survival during this time of sickness and savagery, might be jeopardized even further when a mysterious disease — manufactured by the government — infects her ward, leaving her to tend with zombified creatures who are both half human/half animal and a tyrannical government that wants her and every other resident in the Fourth Ward dead whether or not they are infected.

As she and a clan of rebels flee cross-country in search of a legendary underground city, they face gang wars, children soldiers and trigger-happy government drones that plan to pit every living resident against each other in a free-for-all fight to the death. Together, these quarantined rebels must either band together or die together.