Since the Eagle Party took power in the United States, all schools and
public utilities have been privatized, churches and libraries closed,
and independent news media shut down. Drones buzz overhead in constant
surveillance of the populace, and the open internet has been replaced by
the network of the New Society Corporation. Environmental degradation
and unchecked climate change have brought raging wildfires to the
Western states and disastrous flooding to Eastern coastal regions.
In the Midwest, a massive storm sends Lake Michigan surging over the
Door County peninsula, and thousands of refugees flee inland. In the
midst of this apocalypse, a resourceful band of Wisconsin
sixty-somethings calling themselves the Oldsters lays secret plans to
fight the ruling regime's propaganda and show people how to think for
themselves.