A husband and wife are just finishing a road trip vacation when what first seems to be just a local power outage turns out to be much more serious than that. They make it back safely to their little homestead and wait and wonder if their grown son who lives two states away will also be able to come back home again. It's fall and they know winter is coming which will make it very hard for everyone. This is one family's story of living through a drastic catastrophe that effects the whole United States.