The zombie apocalypse has arrived. It took humanity some time to notice since the virus manifests as a slow-progressing degenerative disease that initially resembles dementia.
Newlyweds Leala and Damon do their best to navigate the world’s new perilous state. But Damon’s lapses in cognitive functioning have grown from a cute quirk into an alarming constant.
The Center for Contagious Disease has promised America a cure is imminent. Leala and Damon can do nothing but wait and hope Damon will not go full “brainless” before he can be saved.
A severe car crash leaves Elisa’s mother dead and Elisa, her father, and her three siblings utterly shattered. Desperate to bring Nadine back to them, the Shermans agree to try a highly secret, highly experimental cloning treatment. The treatment is a success.
That is, until Nadine finally awakens and only remembers the existence of three of her four children…
Bipolar 1 disorder appears to have somehow become contagious. Dr Ashley Hammond’s research reveals that it is simply a fast spreading virus which mimics the symptoms of mania, psychosis, and depression. Either way, it sends the world reeling.
Sasha, however, is far from phased. She’s lived with a bipolar 1 disorder diagnosis for over a decade, a diagnosis she received as a teenager. Sasha won’t admit it to anyone (not even her therapist, Dr Hammond), but she relishes the satisfaction of seeing people who used to deny the validity of mental illness – her father for example – now suffering the same symptoms they once disregarded…
