A mysterious threat now looms over the world, leaving few survivors and extinguishing any laws and ways of the previous life. Within it, a small group of four based in a cabin are now facing their first true test of adapting to it in the very early days of this post-apocalyptic world.

 

Austin, 29, and Wyatt, 28, long-time best friends from their previous lives, return early from their food and supply run. Solo, 17, Austin's younger brother, and Vincent, 45, a survivor they'd found along their way and brought in, are shocked when they see who else enters with Austin and Wyatt. A beaten and unconscious Dwight, 17, is dragged along in with the two men.

 

Dwight and an accomplice had attacked the two men, attempting to rob them, although Wyatt knocked out Dwight, and the other had run away. Wyatt and Austin's mentalities of risks, morality, and safety clash as Wyatt displays his disgust at Austin's reluctance to leave Dwight behind.

 

During the time leading up to the group's discussion, Austin confides in Vincent's wise and calm nature, vulnerably revealing his struggles with the idea of murder, and Vincent assures him that the principles of morality will always be correct. Meanwhile, Wyatt begins planting the seeds in an impressionable Solo. He tries to use their history and the "older brother/uncle" type of relationship they have, to force his beliefs on the risks of keeping Dwight here, suggesting that he could get loose and kill them all or escape and bring his own group.

 

At the time of the decision-making, the entire group is now truly faced with their first test in morality and their adaption to this new lawless world. Simultaneously, the struggles and issues of masculinity are displayed through the clashing of mentalities between the two desirous leaders. And so, regardless of the result of the debate, the conflict only deepens, and then transforms into the extent of how far either is willing to go to ensure that their mindset prevails.