the story is set 20 years from a cordyceps-type fungus has killed millions, with nature gradually retaking the abandoned cities and towns. the survivors are hemmed within quarantine zones, utterly below the heel as to the u. s. military, with order and screening for any infected being viciously maintained below martial law. joel, a hardened black-marketeer at intervals one of the many quarantine zones, goes through an event that makes him promise an recent friend that he is going to get a young girl, ellie, far from the tough regime. they actually begin a journey in the usa, avoiding the infected, humanoid creatures whose sole aim has grown to be spreading the fungal infection, and scavengers that survive outside the quarantine zones who see joel and ellie as their latest prey. however, added thus to their issues, the military are determined to look for ellie and produce her back below their power