Hurricane Katrina has ravaged the Gulf Coast and a mysterious virus has taken over the city of New Orleans, leaving its population infected and ravenous. Rookie reporter, Carly Etland, receives a call from a stranger claiming to have been in the quarantined city. As his unbelievable story unfolds about a renegade team of Marines who enter the city to save three computer technicians trapped inside and the cover-up that has him running for his life, she realizes that this could be the biggest story of her career...or the biggest mistake of her life. Who will survive to expose the truth of The Waters?