For Abby Benjamin, reality is hard enough. She must get out of bed in the early hours of the morning in order to get work on time. Her husband is unemployed, one of the many whose skills became expendable. And, on top of it all, her son is ill.

At the gym where she works, she does her best to put everything aside and concentrate. But when one of the customers becomes ill and injures himself, she takes him to the hospital only to enter a brand new nightmare. The dying, the dead, and a locked down ER with Abby inside make her long for the problems she's left behind.