"I didn't know the end of the world began until the following Tuesday." Thus begins the tale of Jason Campbell, a young man institutionalized by depression for ten years in a private asylum built by the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright. When a deadly virus wipes out a large but ultimately unknown portion of the population, Jason and his fellow patients find themselves on their own with time running out. Jason sets out to find help in nearby Uniontown accompanied by Calvin, a schizophrenic nearly out of medication, where they find the crisis to be worse than anyone could have guessed. Forced to abandon their plans in favor of basic survival, the two go their separate ways: to go home and discover if the virus has claimed their families and to do their best to stay alive. Jason finds a number of surprises waiting for him, not the least that his father, a school janitor and state lottery winner, had during his absence built a bunker in response to the Y2K hysteria. Jason now has the necessities to ride out the storm, but it is here that his battle for survival truly begins. A Long Winter's Journey is the story of a man that must confront his past in the most personal of ways while trying to find a reason to continue in the aftermath of the end of the world.