警官马库迪被一伙尼日利亚黑帮分子杀害，极度的悲痛驱使他的同事和好友希门尼斯（Aurélien Recoing 饰）、韦索（Jean-Pierre Martins 饰）、东尼（Antoine Oppenheim 饰）和奥萝尔（Claude Perron 饰）等人私自前往黑帮分子盘踞的废弃大厦，准备用自己的力量为马库迪报仇。然而悲伤和愤怒让他们失去了应有的判断力，一番枪战过后，这几名警察被黑帮抓获，并遭受难以想象的拷问与折磨。但是更恐怖的事情正等在前方，肃杀的黑夜弥漫着浓烈的死亡气息，一群嗜血如命的恐怖丧尸开始向这两伙人发动袭击。暂时逃生的他们发现，整个城市早已被丧尸所占领…… 　　本片荣获2010年葡萄牙奇幻电影节最佳摄影和最佳剧本奖、2010年法国Gérardmer电影节科幻评委会奖。

In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.