A possessed artifact is traced back to Dr. Blackmist as a zombie virus engulfs SoCal, pitting a local man and a sheriff against an undead plague.

Set in the heart of a rapidly gentrifying west Los Angeles neighborhood still reeling from decades of guns and gang violence across the four corners near Venice, a working-class single mom desperately tries to wean her 17-year-old son Freddy away from a veteran gangster who has become a father figure to him.