The year was 2014. The world had cured cancer, even beat the common cold. But in doing so they unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving those afflicted with a single uncontrollable impulse: feed. Now, twenty years after the Rising, a team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue the truth while competing against the superstar Masons, surrounded by the infected, and facing more insidious forces working in the shadows.