When a pharmaceutical company dumps a contaminated batch of a new tranquilizer into the Los Angeles water supply, its people are poisoned. The city is plunged into chaos. And a desperate adventure is about to begin. As violent rioting breaks out, millions are killed. Duncan Stevens narrowly escapes infection - and sets out to find his estranged family. But when he loses all trace of his children, he joins a group of Marines for a final, brutal assault on the city - that aims to destroy the mob within. 'U.G.L.Y' is a gritty, terrifying but also moving glimpse into a violent, broken world.