After becoming trapped in an elevator with four mysterious boys, Jhosi Callaway slowly realizes her life may never be the same. When they are finally let out of their temporary prison, they realize that the world has changed and they were in that elevator slightly longer than was thought. Every day they were trapped there, was 10 years in the outside world. In those 70 years, the U.S' economy had completely collapsed due to a virus spreading at a rapid rate around the states. This virus, if caught, would either kill you slowly and painfully or would turn you into a rabid monster, bent on destroying everything and everyone with no clue as to why. Jhosi and the boys soon join forces with a league against the government, who were only protecting the rich and powerful, and attempting to figure out the cause and find a cure for the virus in hopes of someday restoring the country to its former state.