A group of high school students are afflicted by an STD known as "teen plague" or "the bug." Symptoms may include flaky skin, rash, growing a new limb or turning into a new kind of creature.

The story follows the events at a high school in a society where a mysterious "plague" infects teenagers with mutations ranging from moderate to severe and forcing the worst of the children to be shunned by their classmates setting up a colony in the woods.—anonymous