The Twelve - death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future, until they were selected for a secret experiment. Now they are the future, and humanity's worst nightmare has begun...

But in a world raveged by the viral plague, something is changing. All the clues point towards the Homeland, a sinister dictatorship where an unlikely trio are re-imagining humanity's destiny: a veteran of the original experiment with a blood-curdling vision of immortality, a woman whose tragic past has turned her into a figure of nightmare, a man whose desire to belong has been fulfilled in the most gruesome way imaginable.