How much certainty could we feel behind the "bars"? How can a place of punishment and restriction transform into a place of hope and expectation for a safer tomorrow? Can a prison play the role of refuge in a world where the dead walk?

Rick and his group will seek the answers to these questions and fight for their lives in the third part of the series: "The Living Dead" as they find refuge in a correctional facility that is not as abandoned as they initially believed...

Through the conflicts and composition of his characters, Kirkman creates a unique psychological profile where nothing is certain. The reader discovers page by page that the real danger does not come from the "undead" but from the "heroes" themselves who are trying to survive in this "new" world.

At the same time, this particular volume is one of the "hardest" in the series as the writer and illustrator torment their heroes with a "sadistic" obsession, creating a terrifying and abominable narrative background that "shocks" even the most distant reader.