Haunted by his past, a careworn man fights against starvation and a hostile environment to find a new home for a little girl and himself in a post apocalyptic world, which not only questions his purpose in life, but if hope alone can keep you and the ?Mensch? inside you alive.

It’s wordy and dense — I have had to read over it multiple times to get a sense of what your story is about.

There’s a movie just come out called “Cargo” which pretty much sounds like this exact thing — but it has the added hook that it’s set post-zombie-apocalypse, and the inciting incident is that the protagonist is bitten and is slowly turning to a zombie, and must now get his infant child to safety before he turns full zombie and eats her.

It’s also reminiscent of ‘The Road’ and ‘The Last of Us’. This is not bad — it’s obviously pretty zeitgeist-y, but your story lacks a hook that sets it apart from those that have come before.

Protagonist: you can do better than the character’s function being ‘man’ though, can’t you?

“A careworn used-car-salesman traverses the violent post-apocalyptic wasteland with his daughter in search of ‘the safe zone’.”

Aside from a fresh hook, it’s missing a call to adventure.