In the year 2023 the population was resting at 12 Billion. A secret government organisation began a project that would give a random member of society one week to hunt and kill a person in a 40-mile radius. If they did not complete this in a week they would be hunted down themselves. This was their way of tackling the overpopulation problem.

Owen Mercy, a nordic young man gets a phone call from a mysterious caller saying he has a week to find and kill a girl called Aurora or gets killed himself.