Deep in a wintry forest, an abandoned boy struggles to protect his little sister from an infection that turns people into a feral-like state, a ruthless militia leader searching for his missing daughter, and Government agents hunting them.
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a 5-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches...
