"I think you're going to learn a lot of things about this city and the people that you won't want to." Madeleine Sówka has spent the last twelve years of her life believing she knows what monsters look like. They are the people who hide in the background, preying on the vulnerable, and taking them the second their mother's and father's turn their backs. And she thought she knew what hell on Earth was after twelve years of being imprisoned in Umbrella's hands. Until the night of July 24th, 1998... S.T.A.R.S. has disbanded and members are on the down low, but things are far from settled amongst the civilians in the nearby town of Raccoon City. The place that she lives. The very home of Umbrella's HQ in the US. People are going missing and an unknown disease is slowly spreading through the city, a disease that she and her S.T.A.R.S. team members know very well what it truly is. And just exactly what it means for Raccoon, but days before she can escape the city is overrun and destroyed by the same T-Virus infected, flesh-hungry zombies she fought for her life against in the mansion. It's dim and hopeless, with no end to the misery in sight. But what she doesn't know is two people are on their way to that same city, and they just might be the people who will save her life and gain her the freedom she has so desperately sought...