Like Warm Bodies, In The Flesh features one of the undead as the main protagonist - a "Partially Deceased Syndrome" sufferer named Kieran. The show will focus on his efforts to manage his "condition" and reintegrate himself into society..
Now known as PDS sufferers (Partially Deceased Syndrome) - and since the passing of the PDS Protection act - the government have set an agenda of acceptance and tolerance, one that is at odds with the communities abandoned at the time of the rising, and the bloody battle between zombies and humans that ensued.
A cauldron of brutal anti-zombie sentiment and the source of the 'rotter' hating Human Volunteer Force (HVF), Kieren returns to his home in the rural village of Roarton. Here he is forced to confront his family, the community that rejected him and the flashbacks that continue to haunt him of what he did in his untreated state.
In the Flesh airs on March 17 on BBC Three.
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