John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. He then seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity, struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun.
The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which civilisation has crumbled. A massive electromagnetic pulse has killed all children on the planet with the exception of Molly (Billie Rutherford), the daughter of Jake Slater (Jake Ryan).
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound – the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults’ irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children’s future.