When Paul first hears of the South American flu, he disregards it as another health scare on par with swine or bird flu. However, when news reports show video footage of large-scale riots and unprecedented violence, he knows that something is wrong. As the outbreak reaches Paul's home city of Pittsburgh, he realizes that it may be too late to escape, and he's not as prepared as he thought he was. In daydreams, he had envisioned himself fighting through the chaos and horror of the zombie apocalypse to emerge unscathed among the ashes. He thought he'd be a hero who saved what was good, destroyed what was evil, and rebuilt what was left of the world into something better than it was before. He was wrong. There are no heroes in Hell.