I want to tell about the fever, about our city Amanzi, and about the murder of my father Willem. Nicolaas Storm travels with his father Willem through a completely transformed South Africa. After a fever that has killed ninety-five percent of the world's population, the two try to find a safe place to live. The country is in a state of lawlessness. Gangs roam heavily armed, and wild animals threaten the people. Eventually, father and son find a place for a settlement. Other people join them - adventurers, orphaned children, former soldiers. They all have to relearn the laws of survival. Nico is trained as a shooter. He falls in love with Sofia, the wildest woman who has ever entered their small town, and he begins to believe in a future again. Until disaster strikes and his father is murdered.