Tye Sheridan and Logan Miller plays best buds, sensitive boy-next-door Ben and devil-may-care skirt-chaser Carter respectively. They're high school sophomores in the small town of Deer Field, California, who have grown a bit anxious that they're not considered part of the 'cool crowd', in large part, so they think, due to still being in the American Scout Society (A.S.S., get it?). Itching to get out and get invited to parties they've been overlooked for, they do have qualms about telling their mutual friend, the forlorn and sweet-natured Augie, who has been gung-ho about the Scouts since his father's passing, that they're no longer going to be part of his world in that way. They plan on ditching Augie's camp-out celebration after earning the vaunted Condor badge in order to go to the secret party full of the school's in-crowd of seniors. However, their plans are curtailed when a plague outbreak emerges that causes humans and animals to turn into blood-sucking zombies, including their beloved Scout Leader Rogers who infect others through their nasty bites. With the help of a resourceful strip-club cocktail waitress named Denise, the trio of scouts have to rely on their many skills have to survive another day.