The Girl with All the Gifts

In the near future, humanity has been ravaged by a fungal disease (a mutation of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis). The infected have turned into fast, mindless flesh-eaters, referred to as "hungries". Mankind's only hope is a small group of hybrid second-generation children who crave living flesh but retain the ability to think and learn. The children are imprisoned by a group of soldiers led by Sergeant Eddie Parks, and go to "school" at an army base in the Home Counties, where they are experimented on by Dr. Caroline Caldwell. Helen Justineau is responsible for educating and studying the children. Among them is an exceptional girl named Melanie. Melanie gets brought into a lab by Caldwell to be experimented on for a cure for the disease.