A father infected with the zombie virus is seeking a home for his newborn daughter.

A father infected with the zombie virus is seeking a home for his newborn daughter.

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“Cargo” is a survival movie about a father infected with a zombie virus who constantly searches for a sanctuary while traversing the Australian outback to protect his soon-to-be-infected daughter.

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In a world recently overtaken by a virus that turns people rabid within 48 hours, Andy Rose, his wife Kay, and their baby Rosie are traveling down a river on a houseboat in rural Australia. Short on food, Kay suggests going ashore and scavenging, but Andy rejects this, arguing it would be safer to remain on the river until they reach their destination, a supposed refuge. The next day, Andy searches an abandoned sailboat and retrieves some supplies, but when Kay ventures out to collect more, she is bitten by a rabid human.

Andy finds Kay trying to bandage the bite wound and insists on taking her to a hospital since she would bleed out long before succumbing to the virus. The Rose family disembarks, restarts an abandoned car, and sets out toward what their map indicates is a large town, but they swerve to avoid an Aboriginal man wearing a mouth gag standing in the road and crash. Kay is impaled and Andy faints. By the time he wakes, Kay has already turned and bites him while he attempts to remove Rosie from the car. After Andy succeeds in carrying Rosie out of the car, he returns to snap Kay's neck. In grief, Andy, with Rosie carried on his back, seeks out the man, who is also turned, and moves to confront him but a girl named Thoomi appears and reveals that the man is her father, Willie Bell. Thoomi has been hiding Willie from her mother, Josie, and the rest of her community because the Aboriginals are systematically burning the infected. She believes her father can be cured by having a shaman restore his soul.