North Korea has a plan to take down the United States and deceive the whole world in the process of just how they are going to go about it. A secret military plan code named "Smoking Skillet" is to be put into play to crush America and its Allies infrastructure and cause societal and economic collapse. A devilishly plausible scheme with lots of deniability built in is concocted by an alliance between the would be atomic powers of Iran and North Korea that ends up causing a nuclear exchange and lights out for much of the modern world. A middle aged prepper couple trying to settle a deceased relative's estate out of town find themselves now facing far from home an electrical grid down apocalypse. They must try to survive this chaos with the help of a pair of elderly neighbors in a small town suburb. They are forced to bug out eventually and take to the road in hopes of getting to an old friends vacation fish camp after a chance meeting with he and his wife in a militia run town. The survivors of this apocalyptic tale use a variety of backyard survival tips and tricks to find food in their small neighborhood, but it isn't enough and they grow weaker with starvation everyday.