Trama

Manel is sheltering from a rabies-like disease which sweeps the planet, until he is forced to leave and meet unlikely but essential traveling companions.

In Spain, the lawyer and manufacturer of a solar panels Manel and his beloved wife Julia visit his sister Belén and her family near Christmas. While returning home, they have a discussion and a subsequent car accident, where Julia dies. One year later, Manel is depressed and living alone with his cat Lúculo in Galicia. He does not pay attention to the outbreak of the TSJ virus in Europe, more lethal than Covid 19. The military husband of Belén, Mario, succeeds in being transferred with Belén and their little son Carlos, to the Canary Islands and they call Manel to join them. But the Spanish government closes the borders trying to contain the virus that turns people into violent zombies. Belén and Mario advise Manel to stay home and ignore the government shelters where the probability of infections is greater. But Manel has only a few supplies and soon he needs to loot supplies in the closed house, in the beginning of his fight to survive with Lúculo.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Near Christmas Eve in Spain, Manel (Francisco Ortiz), a lawyer and owner of a solar power company, and his wife Julia (Iria Del Rio) visit his older sister Belen (Marta Poveda), her husband Mario (Oriol Ruiz), and his nephew Carlos. As they drive home that night, a discussion about Manel's unwillingness to have children of his own results in a car accident in which Julia is killed.

One-year passes, in which Manel lives in isolation with his cat Luculo in his house in Galicia, maintaining only video contact with his sister and nephew. In his depression, he initially pays no attention to an ongoing outbreak of a dangerous virus called TSJ, which is rapidly spreading across Europe and resists quarantine measures. The Spanish government desperately tries to keep the population ignorant of how the virus turns infected people into highly aggressive zombies. Manel decides to sell his yacht at the marina to a customer. The yacht reminded him of Julia, as they both had many memories of their time spent at the yacht. However, the customer wanted something more modern, and the sale agreement is not completed.

Belen's family is later evacuated to the Canary Islands. When Manel tries to join them, the government abruptly closes the borders, and soon after declares a general state of emergency. This was in response to a new variant of the virus which shortened the incubation period to a few minutes. The new variant was not contagious through air, and instead spread through blood contact, via bites and wounds. Manel was about to board his flight when it was canceled, and he was forced to return home. As the highways were backed-up for several kilometers, Manel has to abandon his car, and he walked home.

As Manel returns home, he finds the military bringing out a zombie from another house, indicating that the virus variant is now widespread. Manel promises Belen he'll stay home, despite the army's efforts to evacuate the population into safe zones. While collecting supplies, he witnesses an infected man attacking and wounding two police officers. One kills the attacker, then himself, while the other also turns rabid. Manel then barricades himself in his house and hides when the army comes for him.

Two weeks later, Manel's supplies have dwindled, and communication lines have collapsed, leaving him unaware of his family's fate. Manel's house has solar panels, so he still has access to energy. While foraging in his neighborhood for food, he meets an elderly lady named Gabriela (Amalia Gomez), who failed to join the evacuation because she is a wheelchair-user. Manel was wearing his diving suit, so that the zombies could not bite him and penetrate his skin easily. With her help, he manages to gather a few scant supplies from the other houses in the neighborhood. Manel finds a motorcycle in one of garages and starts to use it as transportation. Manel even enters the house where the zombie was found and finds a large cache of canned food. He and Gabriela have a feast.

That night, she informs him of a radio transmission summoning any survivors to the Arousa Estuary, for evacuation to the Canaries. Despite Gabriela's misgivings, Manel decides to bring them there with a boat he and Julia owned. But the next morning, as he prepares to fetch Gabriela, he discovers that she has committed suicide in order not to burden his escape.

Along with Luculo and equipped with a diving suit and a spear-gun for defense, Manel heads for the docks. Manel finds that the highways are barricaded, and hence takes a route through the forest and camping sites. Barely evading a zombie horde chasing after him, he finds all larger boats either gone or unusable. Using an inflatable dinghy, he sails for Pontevedra, but is intercepted by a group of ragged, armed Russian sailors led by their captain Ushakov (Yuri Mikhaylychenko).

One of the crew, a former Ukrainian firefighting pilot named Viktor Pritchenko (Jose Maria Yazpik), informs Manel that the Canaries have been quarantined and enlists his help in searching the area for supplies. Just before going to sleep, Manel witnesses another group of refugees arriving and asking for help, but the next morning Pritchenko denies they ever arrived, and later Manel sees the crew rifling through the refugees' possessions. Manel believes that the crew of the boat is hunting for survivors and keeping them prisoners. Manel was spared as Pritchenko lied to Ushakov that he is an Engineer.

No longer feeling safe, Manel tells Pritchenko about a helicopter at a hospital in Pontevedra, where his wife died, hoping Pritchenko will allow him to escape, but he cannot persuade him. Manel then tries to flee on his own but is forced to detour through the bowels of the ship, where he finds two of the refugees imprisoned. While trying to free them, he is discovered by a guard, who shoots one of the prisoners. Pritchenko intervenes and kills the guard, and the three steal a motorboat to escape. As they depart, the remaining refugee is killed by the guards, and Pritchenko is wounded.

Pritchenko reveals that Ushakov is building a private refuge on an island and the refugees are being used as slave labor on the island.

When Manel and Pritchenko make it to the hospital, they find the helicopter gone. Manel takes Pritchenko into the hospital to treat his injuries, but while searching the building, he finds a nurse named Lucia (Berta Vázquez), a nun named Cecilia (María Salgueiro), and three children holed up inside in the ventilation shafts. After treating Pritchenko, Lucia shows Manel another helicopter in a courtyard overrun by the zombies. The network starts working at the hospital and Manel gets videos from Belen indicating that she and her family are doing well.

Soon after, Ushakov's men arrive at the hospital looking for supplies. Forced to evacuate through a subterranean boiler complex, the group is attacked by a zombie. Cecilia is infected and remains behind. The rest make it to the helicopter and seal off the landing pad but are intercepted by Ushakov and his men before they can take off. Manel cuts open the lock to the pad's fence, allowing the zombies to pour in and overwhelm Ushakov. Manel climbs aboard the departing helicopter, and the group escapes. As they near the Canaries, Manel manages to contact Belen. To their horror, Belen frantically warns them to stay away, and two fighter jets pass them.