Synopsis

The beginning of the film will be when the main character George is trying to get home as the disease arrived in the UK he will be walking down a long road towards his house. He then find out his parents and family have gone and they left him a note which was left for him months ago. His main aim then is to locate his family.He is then attacked in his home by looters which he manages to escape from. He knows that his family has gone to an evacuation point and he makes it his mission to try and get there. The sanctuary is located at the docks which is a three mile walk. During his travels he will meet a variety of people that will attempt to help him achieve his goals, some being more helpful than other.

Due to the disease he will have to scavenge and hunt for food and supply's that will keep him going and will need to always wear a gas masks as the disease is airborne. As he gets to the sanctuary that his family have meant to have been evacuated to he notice that their is no one there. On the note that the parents left for him it tells him what block that they have been evacuated to and he visits that specific block to see if that's where they are but all he finds is his little sisters little stuffed toy that she carries around with her everywhere. He gets the sinking feeling that he will never see his family ever again. As he is walking through the sanctuary he walks in to the medical unit hoping to find answers and he finds a guy who has been left with the disease to fend for himself, He asks the man if he knows what happened here and the man informs him that their was a breakout of the disease, and that it spread like wild fire through the camp. This causes the people to riot and the sanctuary broke down. The man also informs George that many people fled on to boats and back into the city to get away but had no idea about the were about of Georges family.

George and his friend Toby search the city for Georges family. George and Toby set up camp just outside the city and Toby goes out one night to find food and while out he is confronted by a man who Toby ends up shooting the man and tells George the following morning. That morning George and Toby go to search the man and George identify's the man as his father and out of anger shots Toby. George is then even more desperate to find his family as now he believes his mum and sister are all alone in this somewhere in the city.

As George is grieving at his make shift camp, as night falls he notice a red light in the sky. Someone has set a flare off. He quickly jumps to his feet in an attempt to no miss the flare and its location. He rushes to the location of the flare to find his mother, sister and two strangers, he immediately threatens the two strangers but is quickly reassured they are protecting them. The mother then informs them of a wound that is infected and is getting increasingly worse.

The mothers health is drastically deteriorating and is becoming weaker. The medicine they are providing her is not working. The mother then informs George that his sister is immune and that he needs to take her to a safer place. George then takes his sister away and leaves his mother with the two man to try and keep her alive.