A Red Cross surgeon, Xavier Payne, is trapped in the madness of the second civil war, where the United States military and its civilians battle a private police force controlled by the Nevco Corporation. As he searches the ravaged countryside for his wife Larah, he is tormented by his past and perused by a ruthless contractor named The Plague. As he is reunited with Larah, his past and The Plague catch up with him sending him into a psychotic collapse. Can love survive in such a brutal world as his?