Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is set in mid-2017 somewhere in the southern United States, where there have been reports of "ghosts" sighted around the bayou of the town, Dulvey. The game proper takes place after the events of Beginning Hour, which ended with the murder of a three-man TV crew by the possibly-infected Baker family members Jack and Mia. It features a new protagonist named Ethan Winters, a civilian who offers fewer combat skills than most previous Resident Evil protagonists. Ethan is searching for his missing wife, Mia, which leads him to a derelict plantation mansion, home of the Baker family.