In an alternate future where the controversial one-child policy has spread into a global phenomenon, the Southern metropolis of Arish, Tennessee has become a battleground for various groups warring over its legitimacy.

Alexis Bedinger is a rookie officer on the Population Control Task Force who believes it is every citizen’s moral duty to plan their family accordingly—but after an unarmed man is killed during a routine house raid, tensions rise with a public outcry for justice.

Myra Gillespie’s family was torn apart by the One-Child Law. She has joined the United Front for Reproductive Freedom (UFRF) to peacefully protest it, but as events escalate she has to decide just how far she is willing to go for the cause.

All the while, the Revenants of the Confederacy, a terrorist organization longing for the glory days of Southern independence, are planning their retaliation . . .