Jake Spryfield and Kayla Jay grow up together in rural Prince Edward Island, bound by childhood promises, strawberry fields, and a lettered bracelet with the vow "'til we're old." Their dream of building a life together carries them through adolescence, into military service, and across fourteen years of war and sacrifice. Just as they begin reaching for the future they imagined, a catastrophic outbreak rips through the province, dismantling society and turning neighbors into threats.

As democracy collapses, survival becomes the only language. Families fortify homes, communities fracture, and soldiers are ordered to enforce new laws with ruthless precision. Jake and Kayla fight to hold onto each other and the life they always dreamed of.

Across tense days and sleepless nights, memories of strawberry fields, lemonade stands, and wedding vows collide with the brutal reality of a world unraveling. Every choice carries a cost. Every promise could mean survival, or destruction.