2012年,人类被不知名病毒感染,纽约成为一座空城。Robert Neville是为军方服务的科学家,也是对病毒有免疫力的幸存者。白天,他带着狗Sam在街道上寻找食物,用广播寻找幸存者,在实验室里研究治愈病毒的方法;晚上,他只能躲在屋子里,因为那些感染病毒而没有死亡的人们,成为了“夜魔”只能夜晚出来活动,丧失理智,会攻击所有的人。
某天,Sam也感染病毒死去,Robert Neville陷入了前所未有的孤独。当他准备和“夜魔”们同归于尽的时候,另外一个幸存者Anna救了他。Anna相信山上的隔离区还有幸存者,但是固执的Robert Neville却坚持守在纽约。
又一个晚上,“夜魔”攻击Robert Neville的住所,此时他的研究已经获得成功,但是只有坚持到天亮,人类才能得以延存。。Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land st...。