巴里（罗里·金尼尔 Rory Kinnear 饰）是小镇上的教区议员，生前的他再也无法想到的是，自己的意外猝死会在风平浪静的小镇里掀起怎样的狂澜。霍华德（迈克尔·刚本 Michael Gambon 饰）和雪莉（朱莉娅·麦肯茨 Julia McKenzie 饰）是镇上的模范夫妻、西蒙（Richard Glover 饰）是个喜欢在老婆和孩子身上发泄怒火的暴力狂、沃尔校长（西蒙·迈克伯尼 Simon McBurney 饰）整日神经兮兮，每一个人都觉得自己是巴里所留下的职位的最佳继承者，并做好了十足的准备，为了得到他们所想要的东西而争得你死我活。
Earth Abidesis a new take on George R. Stewart’s sci-fi novel of the same name.
When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly and inexorably breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into extinction.
Ish is a brilliant but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a coma only to find that there is no one left alive but him. A plague of unprecedented virulence has swept the globe, and yes, there are a few scattered survivors, but there are no rules.
