An unnamed UK metropolis. The future. Photojournalist JENNIFER PRESTON is investigating the aftermath of a terrible explosion that ripped through the city on New Year's Eve. A sprawling, militarized Quarantine Zone has been erected around the blast site nobody goes in and nobody comes out.

As unexplained acts of violence erupt across the city, Jennifer begins to notice strange, ephemeral phantoms in her photographs and her investigation becomes a race against time. Can she discover the cause of the Catastrophe before the dangerous and powerful conspirators orchestrating events get to her and those closest to her?