Decades after a nuclear war, Eli trudges through the dangerous, dilapidated cities and scorched wilderness of America on an odyssey to bring the last known copy of the Bible to a sacred place.
In the wreck of a small town, he is hunted by an army of psychopaths led by Carnegie, who believes that the Bible is his last chance to rule what is left of humanity. Little do they know that their adversary has the power to bring down God's wrath on all creatures of evil.