Gas rationing, trucker strikes, and food shortages have brought economic collapse to the country, including the port city of Mobile, Alabama. As society starts to break down into violence and chaos, Anna and Timothy McLennan and their four children must flee their home and head to the safety of the family homestead on Barrow Road. As the power fails and martial law is declared, they must scramble to assemble the family in a remote corner of Choctaw County, Alabama and prepare to adapt for a struggle that has is only just beginning.