The monster within us. The dead have risen and are hunting the living; nothing and no one is safe from them, and chaos reigns across the world. Except in the small Southern town of Woodbury: There, the Governor rules with an iron fist over the few people who have survived the apocalypse. In return, he offers them protection from the hungry dead. But when the people of Woodbury realize that the true monster is raging within the city walls, a bloody battle ensues - against both the living and the dead...