In 2005, behind fences in the Nevada desert, a new kind of neighborhood opened its gates: A.C.R.E.S., the Animated Corpses Reintegration Experimental Subdivision — a community built for the reanimated, where the dead could live out their second lives under careful watch.

The watchers work for Roslun Global, the corporation behind the reanimation breakthrough and its Second Birth Project — the program that made the dead walk again, and the secrets it's still burying. Outbreaks happen. Cleanup teams answer. Official stories get told.

And then one of the dead sat down in front of a television camera. Whistleblower William Lohman — reanimated, articulate, and done staying quiet — told the world what really goes on behind the gates of the Acres.

The dead are talking. The living should listen.