Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker is obsessed with zombie movies. He attends an all-boys Catholic High School where roving gangs in plaid make his days a living hell. His mother is an absentee pillhead, his older brother a self-diagnosed sex-addict, and his father an ex-Marine realtor who disappears night after night without explanation. Jeremy navigates it all with a code cobbled together from <i>Night of the Living Dead</i>, <i>28 Days Later</i>, <i>Planet Terror</i>, <i>Zombieland </i>and <i>Dawn of the Dead</i>:<br><br>• Avoid Contact<br>• Keep Quiet<br>• Forget the Past<br>• Lock-and-load<br>• Fight to Survive<br><br>The code is put to the test when he discovers in his father's closet a bizarre homemade video of a man strapped to a bed, being prepped for some sort of surgical procedure. As Jeremy—troubled but ever-optimistic—attempts to trace the origin of the video, this remarkable debut moves from its sharp, precocious beginnings to a climax of almost unthinkable violence, testing him to the core.