All of a sudden the world goes black and a small Anishinaabe community in Ontario is left isolated without supplies from the increasingly chaotic south. As the community bands together to collect and share resources, a stream survivors comes from the south and they begin to use up the community's stores of food and supplies. As the months pass, sickness and violence begin to take over the community as does the tension between the natives and the outsiders. Frustrated, a small group leaves the town to rely on the ancient Anishinaabe ways and begin to start a new community.