Cargo

Andy and his wife Kay are drifting through the zombie-plagued Australian outback on a houseboat with their infant daughter Rosie when Kay is bitten scavenging a supply boat. She turns overnight and bites Andy before he can stop her. With 48 hours before the infection claims him, Andy's only task is to find someone to take Rosie before he becomes a danger to her.

Traveling on foot through the stark outback, Andy encounters a mix of survivors — the desperate, the predatory, and the quietly resilient. He meets Thoomi, a young Aboriginal girl who has been shadowing her infected father through the bush, refusing to let go. She knows the land and the people who still live in it. Andy helps free her father from captors and the two travel together.

As Andy's time runs out and his body begins to fail, the film turns inward, measuring the distance between what he can still do and what he is losing. He arranges the only ending available to him: he ties himself upright with Rosie on his back and walks into sight of Thoomi's community, turning as they watch, using his own infected body to draw their attention to his daughter. Thoomi's grandfather carries Rosie away. Andy is gone.