"The Last Man on Earth" is a multi-part project that tells the story of life on Earth after a deadly virus has wiped out its population. The only survivor is a man named Phil Miller. He travels across the United States in a jeep in search of other people, but doesn't encounter a single soul along the way. Filled with despair, Phil returns home and contemplates ending his life. It is at this moment that a woman named Carol appears, who soon becomes his wife.