2035 A.D.
After The 2nd American Civil War Jack Pasternak, a laid-back California doctor, receives a garbled distress call from his fianc e in Maryland before her transmissions stop altogether. Unfortunately for Jack, citizens of the Blue States are no longer allowed to cross Red America. He is faced with an impossible choice: ignore his lover's peril or risk his own life and sanity by venturing into the dark heart of the Red...