A group of oil workers find themselves mysteriously without power and stranded on a man-made island several miles off the coast of Barrow, AK. With no way to communicate with the outside world due to the power outage and mass-electronic failure, the difficult decision is made to leave and go for help. After a harrowing trip over the ice road, they make it to Barrow, AK, only to find it in the same predicament as the one they left. If there was a difference, it was that there were people where they came from. Barrow, though, seemed completely devoid of life. That was until a member of the group is viciously attacked and left to die in the middle of the street. With nowhere else to go, they break into a house and begin to give aid to their injured friend. During their search for items to save him, they find a woman sitting alone at the kitchen table. Her skin is a sickly gray and covered in a smelly mucus. At first, it’s believed she was dead, but the fluttering of an eyelid and a trail of tears let them know otherwise. Not knowing how to help her, and because of her insufferable crying, they decide to cordon themselves off from her. Several hours later, a group of people shows up outside. They seem to have the same malady as the woman from the kitchen. They, however, have no difficulty in movement. They attack the house in short order. Coinciding with their attack, the man who was attacked earlier awakens and it’s clear he isn’t well. They escape and make their way to the corporate headquarters of the company they work for. Along the way, they save a woman and child trapped in a house by a group of what they begin calling Grays. Once at the headquarters, the woman, who has everything to lose, tells an unbelievable story that could, if true, change everything.