In the future after a bitter civil war leaves Manhattan a demilitarized area (DMZ), destroyed as well as isolated from the remainder of the world, fierce medic Alma Ortega sets out on a traumatic trip to discover the son she lost in the emptying of New York City at the start of the problem. Standing in her method are gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords, including Parco Delgado, the popular-- as well as lethal-- leader of among the most effective gangs in the DMZ.