Jared, a struggling writer, is haunted by a tragic past. Fact and fiction explosively collide when he writes of a dark family secret that his wife can't understand and that his mother has vowed to keep hidden at all costs.

Over one hundred years ago, a cataclysmic chain of events plummeted the earth into the dark ages which destroyed most of civilization, and the remaining few survivors attempt to change the course of events that led to the destruction.