The world as Amelia knows it is over. All of electronic devises are now just really fancy paperweights, cars are forever parked where they are, batteries don't even work. As if thats bad enough on the day the electricity went out Amelia's mom and sister both died in a car crash. In the meantime Amelia is staying with her neighbors but when her town collapses into chaos Amelia hits the road. Towns all over the country are falling into chaos and you can't trust anyone. But when Amelia meets a stranger on her way to her uncle and aunt's house he ends up being her traveling companion. She doesn't know who to trust but she knows she can't travel the thousand miles to her uncle and aunt's house alone.