It's 1822, a meteor strikes earth in a remote region of the north atlantic causing devastation and an endless winter that challenges the very existence of those that survive. In the never ending white abyss of northern France and Britain, Aric and his fellow soldiers do everything necessary to survive. But something worse, far worse is produced in the aftermath, a plague, the White Death they call it, consuming all who are infected and twisting their minds into becoming frightening new forms set on one goal, to infect every last human alive.