It starts with a thaw that becomes a hundred year rain. Then the recently deceased of Solway, MA, pull themselves from their chemically tainted, water-logged graves and return to a town that has just voted to fire its police and fire department, where a 911 call goes to the distant state police. The resurrected try to return to their lives, but some of them are no longer welcome. Animals killed in a fighting pit outside of town also return, bent on revenge.