The author has pushed the clock ahead to mid-century where an event takes place that seriously disrupts the United States. For an entire year Christine, a mother of two young children, doesn't know how or why her husband and twenty three other people disappeared into thin air without leaving a trace. Then after a year she learns why they disappeared. The people responsible for her grief were, and will still be ,her friends. She knows the strangeness of her convictions but can only go on with the feelings that are in her heart.
Accompanying Christine's loss comes a demand from a group of people that may result in a catastrophic upheaval. The U. S. may be forced to make major changes. No one really knows how the demands will affect the nation or the world for that matter.