Logline:
An Uber driver, Dale Place, decides to go back to work in the middle of a zombie infestation. In so doing, he finds purpose and a peculiar balance between humanity and peril.
Synopsis:
DALE PLACE is the last Uber driver in Los Angeles. He survived the zombie apocalypse and now drives the very few survivors to their destinations. There are times when the job is a bit of a bummer and he shows up to a fare to find them being eaten by a group of bloodthirsty undead. There are times when his rules for survival are followed and the fare still dies in a sneezing fit. He is still fairly carefree in a world where everything is life and death.
One day, a young girl gets into his cab with some coordinates and it changes his life. He now realizes that there is a ticking clock to their existence and if he doesn’t get out of town and underground soon he will die with all of the rest of the dead.
He comes across a mountain man and father figure who has no emotions left and can mix with the zombies in a unique way. He goes to a local bowling alley in hopes of finding a girl he dropped off there the weekend before and finds her crazed and dazed but alive. He even finds a dog – one of the last dogs in the city Zombies find dogs to be delicious and easy to catch. He now follows the directions of his missing sister and gets them all to safety. He keeps remembering back to all he lost.
His sister was his everything – protective safety wrapped in general awesomeness. When she didn’t come back from a milk run, he set an alarm on his phone and put a gun in his mouth. He discovered he didn’t have what it took to pull the trigger even after the alarm to shoot himself went off a couple of times.
Instead he remembered some of her advice – the fastest way to die in this new world is to treat it like the old world. The minute you start meeting your regular life you’re gone. She used to make him always test the door twice before opening, always throw something out the window in the direction they weren’t going before they set off to go in the direction they wanted to. She was the one that figured out that the zombies track emotions first and foremost in their hunt. Without her, he just wanted to get back to his normal life and by doing so, did. However, somewhere along the line, he got into a rhythm and that allowed him to be one of the few people who could slip in and out through the alleys and boulevards. He became one of the few who could navigate this new world mainly because he stopped caring about almost everything that lived in it.
Now that he does care about those around him be with him, he fights for the future in the only way he can – channeling his sister’s advice and making plans in the scariest place on earth.
