It's set in the near future in a struggling democracy which, facing increasing instability is slowly but surely being led into dictatorship by its charismatic leader, Cayman Fischer. The protagonist is Asheah Catori a political aid who starts out in Fischer's camp; but who becomes more and more radical as events unfold; and who ends up in the camp of the Pax Inti, the leader of the Resistance. As the violence of war increases, Asheah finds herself at increasingly at odds. with Pax.. The "Twilight Zone" climax suggests a new way we could view all of this...The way of the future?...I don't know...but I wanted to put it out there out there...