In the wake of a global pandemic, a small band of survivors makes its way across the country to find a safe, new home -- away from the dangers of The Walking Dead. The group includes an injured sheriff's deputy (Andrew Lincoln) who wakes up in an abandoned hospital, only to find the facility crawling with flesh-eating "walkers" (that's slang for zombies) and half-eaten corpses. But in time, he joins forces with a single father (Lennie James) and his young son (Adrian Kali Turner), and sets out to find his own missing wife (Sarah Wayne Callies) and boy (Chandler Riggs). The show is based on a comic book series of the same name created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore.