[1] Infected with an unknown virus that mutated his body, Adam Goldstein wakes in a barricaded cabin with no immediate recollection of who he is or what has happened.

Through a series of intermittent flashbacks, messages he wrote to himself, and clues such as sketches and photographs, Adam gradually pieces together the recent past.

Flashbacks to the 1980s show Russian scientist Dr. Yuri Yegorov performing experiments on restrained subjects in an attempt to connect their brains to a hive mind consciousness.

The experiments succeed, but patients mutate, break free from their restraints, and cause chaos as they kill researchers in the lab.

More recent flashbacks show Dr. Baker performing brain surgery on a little girl named Kayla who inexplicably recites a complex mathematical equation before dying during the operation.

Adam, Clark, Katie, and Jess investigate the crash site only to be attacked by a pilot infected with the hive virus.

However, Adam's narration intimates that the world was overrun by the infection and he planted false memories about their escape in Katie's mind to protect her from the truth.

[2] It was presented at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2015, and was subsequently released to theaters and digital platforms by Nerdist Industries in Fall 2015.