In a West Virginia town that has become ground zero of a local heroin epidemic, a sample of tar is discovered at the scene of an overdose of a local addict. Post-autopsy, when Eve Woodworth, a biochemist, discovers a living organism inside the tar that might be some kind of mutation, the local Sheriff exercises autocratic tendencies to suppress this information and attempts to scapegoat a black man who she suspects is the local drug dealer. Eve decides to continue investigating the anomaly on he...