Joseph Reed is a university dropout, and he has been jobless and broke for nearly a month. One of his only friends is Alice Warwick. She's addicted to drugs. All of them. She's struggled to go through rehab for years, but she keeps coming back for more illegal substances. Eric Foster is an orphan and has been moving through foster homes for so long he can't remember what it's like to have a real family. How will they survive the end of the world? They won't. But they'll sure as hell try to.