The near future. Saint Petersburg. A single mother urgently leaves on a business trip and leaves the teenager Maxim and his younger sister Lidia under the care of the retired Sofia Stepanovna, who lives a couple of floors below. On a visit, the forty-eight-year-old Valery Dyatlov is greeted by an old classmate and ardent alcoholic Mikhail Popushkin, who has come to relive the good old days over a bottle.
But the troublemaking loafer Pyotr and his drug-addicted friend called Kosyak decide to rob the apartment of a well-off family. And it all happens in the same entryway of a typical five-story building, right in the middle of an approaching terrifying pandemic. Soon the residents will have to face not only the undead walking about, but something even worse…