They receive help in the form of a resourceful stranger, Charlie (Kennedy), who shows up one day and offers to assist them.

It had a private screening at the Astor Theatre in Melbourne on 29 October 2014 and premiered at the Fantastic Planet Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Film Festival on 22 November.

When Evie's husband John becomes separated from the rest of the group during an attack, the survivors fall back to their emergency shelter.

Gary and Evie want to wait for John, as they all agreed they would do in such a circumstance, but Bob becomes increasingly impatient.

Citing the realities of the situation, Bob says they must assume John is dead and leave for a more permanent shelter.

With Charlie's resourcefulness and skill, the survivors slowly increase their quality of life, though Evie remains bitter about John's previous suicide attempt.

Charlie immediately returns and angrily confronts them; he accuses them of being ungrateful and says that survival is the only rule in this new society.

When a lost soldier suddenly shows up, John disarms him and learns about an extraction point.

Drawn by John's yelling to alert the military forces he assumes must be near, zombies begin to converge on their location.

When she realizes that he intends to leave her to die, Evie shoots John in the leg and uses him as a distraction while she escapes from the approaching zombies.

[3] Plague had a private screening at the Astor Theatre in Melbourne on 29 October 2014[2] and had its world premiere on 22 November 2014 at the Fantastic Planet Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Film Festival in Sydney.

[4] John Noonan of Filmink wrote, "As a debut feature, it's a competently put together piece of work that offers up healthy slabs of scares, but it's often in danger of mistaking heightened emotions for character development.