Twenty-year-old Nathan Billinger, and insurance salesman, goes on a holiday of a lifetime to New York with his girlfriend, Cindy Walters. Eighteen-year-old Alice Watkins, a trainee nurse, takes her baby daughter to New York to live with her aunt and uncle to escape the constant nagging of her mother. A disease originating in the Middle East, shatters their lives. Would they be strong enough to survive? Only time would tell.