The United States is ravaged by disease and stifled by martial law. With whole cities falling to a lethal virus known as V-CIDS, the panicked authorities take the precaution of herding the infected into huge specially designed internment camps. Into one of these prisons stumbles Michael Barris, a wealthy interactive television mogul with a controversial past. He is searching for his sick son, spending a fortune and his future for the answers. What he finds is a carefully guarded nightmare - one that he helped to create. As he battles to survive he comes to understand that the camps have a far more sinister agenda than the military is willing to admit...