In the early years of the Civil War, rumors of gold lurking in the frozen bowels of Klondike drew hordes of prospectors to the north of the Pacific coast. Not wanting to give in to this game, the Russian government commissioned the inventor Leviticus Blue to build a large machine capable of drilling the ice of Alaska. Thus was born the "Incredible Stunning Drilling Unit Dr. Blue" .. However, on the first day of the tests, the earthquake behaved unpredictably, smashing several blocks in the business part of Seattle and opening the underground deposits of destructive gas, which turned any person who breathed it into a living dead man. It's been 16 years. Devastated and still toxic areas are surrounded by a giant wall. In its vicinity lives the widow of Dr. Blue, Briar Wilkes .. A lost reputation and a teenage son who needs to be raised do not make her life any easier, but she and Ezekiel cope. Until the day when Ezekiel, intending to rewrite history, secretly from his mother goes on a desperate campaign. The search will lead him into the tunnels under the wall, and from there to the city, infested with voracious zombies, air pirates, kings of the underworld and armed to the teeth deserters. And only the mother is able to bring him out of there alive ..