The year is 2035 in a near dystopian future. The world has fallen into mayhem as an airborne virus without discernible origin and no cure has led to a global pandemic infecting all seven continents, drawing humanity into mass crisis. The old are all but extinct, the young struggle to survive past birth, and those who remain are divided in a society that is rigorously controlled by the government. Unknown to everyone, the fate of humanity is being decided on the chaotic streets of Ground Zero, the Johannesburg city slums, but not by the government and its failing medical grants and welfare distribution, nor by the scientists and the medical industrial complexes futile search for a cure, but in the arms of an unsuspecting young woman – Tshengedzo – who holds closely her healthy baby boy, Cashile.