Lot's Journal

Ashland, Oregon The trees are blooming in Lithia Park. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, but a mysterious disease has suddenly wiped out nearly all of the world’s human beings. Roberta Neville is alone. She surrounds herself with animal companions as she stoically sets about ridding the town of corpses. Two thousand miles away, in Huntsville, Tennessee, a schizophrenic trial lawyer named John Lot sets out in a pickup camper on a quest to find other survivors. Fueled by religious zealotry, he believes that God has spared him from the Calamity because of his own holiness, and he is convinced that any survivors he finds will share his extreme religious convictions. At last he encounters Roberta. How will he cope with a strong woman with opinions of her own?