In a skewed version of our near future, the political problems that plague us remain. Threats against our safety are a routine occurrence. The ruling party works to ensure that loyalty and a potentially false sense of stability are maintained while the opposition is caught between diplomacy and a growing call for violent resistance. And recently, that call has been coming from a popular collective of hackers. On the day that our story begins - the president's birthday - these hackers threaten their largest and most destructive act yet. And that night, just as a birthday celebration kicks off at the capitol building, they make good on the threat. The fuse has been lit for a second civil war.

Jessica is an aide to a senator loyal to the president. John works for a branding and marketing agency consulting with those on the opposite side of the aisle. They're both at the party and so find themselves caught in the bizarre frenzy that immediately follows the release of the hacked information. Clashing forces descend on the building and close in around them. In desperate need of escape, the two twenty-somethings follow information that points them to a secret escape route. They scramble through the capitol's vaunted halls and corridors of power, dodging enemies unseen, unsure of who to trust, of what's fact and what's not. Before the night is out, they'll reckon with the constantly shifting lines that separate us and weigh their beliefs against the need for connection in an increasingly fractured world.