As the American Regime grows ever more brutal and corrupt, Erin Gordon is targeted for reasons beyond her control. Help comes to her from an unlikely source, as her neighbors - the secretive descendants of suppressed medieval freemen, a last surviving remnant of ancient Germanic paganism - prove willing and able to intervene. Accepting their protection, she witnesses a people - unbeknownst to the world - who hold stubbornly to their old ways, and remain defiant in the face of tyranny.