What would you do if you woke up every day staring into the face of death? What if increasingly deadly diseases had plagued the population and devastated the economy? If crime was rampant and your only means of survival were through stealing and trade? What if you had a helpless 7-year-old girl whose whole existence depended on you? And what if you were just a kid yourself?This was Alex's life, before this latest disease that turned the living and the dead into murderous psychopaths and put the final nail in the coffin of what little remained of the civilized world. Barricaded in his decrepit apartment with his little sister and possibly infected mother. No food. No water. Will he try to stay in relative safety and hope his mother isn't infected, while waiting to die of hunger and thirst? Or will he be forced to open the door, his only barrier against an unknown hell, and face the apocalyptic nightmare that awaits?What would you do in the face of death?