- Fifty
- years
- after
- a
- coup
- replaced
- President
- Franklin
- D.
- Roosevelt
- with
- a
- fascist
- dictatorship,
- America
- is
- a
- land
- of
- hopelessness.
- Ben
- Adamson,
- a
- 19-year-old
- farm
- boy
- in
- southern
- Illinois,
- wants
- only
- to
- spend
- his
- time
- fishing
- and
- hunting.
- But
- when
- his
- dead
- brother
- demands
- justice
- for
- his
- suspicious
- fate
- in
- a
- colonial
- war,
- Ben
- and
- Rachel,
- his
- brother's
- fiancée,
- are
- drawn
- into
- an
- underground
- revolutionary
- movement.After
- staging
- a
- rally
- against
- the
- war,
- Ben
- and
- Rachel
- are
- arrested
- by
- the
- Internal
- Security
- Service,
- who
- have
- perfected
- the
- science
- of
- breaking
- people.
- Ben
- is
- given
- a
- choice:
- betray
- the
- rebels,
- including
- his
- best
- friend
- from
- childhood,
- or
- Rachel
- will
- be
- lobotomized.Although
- traumatized
- and
- addicted
- to
- a
- powerful
- drug,
- Ben
- refuses
- to
- doom
- anyone
- he
- cares
- about.
- Can
- he
- find
- a
- third
- option?
- Can
- he
- free
- Rachel
- and
- strike
- back
- at
- the
- dictatorship,
- while
- dodging
- the
- suspicions
- of
- police
- and
- rebels alike?
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