Day 5 is the first dramatic series from the Austin, Texas-based Rooster Teeth production company (Red vs. Blue, RWBY, Lazer Team) and concerns a fatal epidemic which affects the unconscious. After a fortuitous drug bender saves his life, addict Jake (Jesse C. Boyd) ventures out into the quiet streets unaware that most of the world already died in their beds. Now, battling sleepless fatigue and encroaching delirium, Jake teams with a scrappy teenager (Walker Satterwhite), an overnight doctor (Stephanie Drapeau), and a red-eye pilot (Davi Jay) to search for answers — and just maybe find a way to sleep again.