It is the winter of 2046 and the Byler Amish family are doing their best to live normal lives, even after most Amish families in Nickel Mines, Bart township, Lancaster County in Pennsylvania has accepted automobile, electricity, trousers and T-shirts for women, telephones, photographs, computers, and the Internet in their lives. The talk around the family Seder table is of budding romance and new babies, not of the way their future is turning computerized. But soon the horrors of hate crimes against old fashioned Amish will become inescapable and the Byler Amish family will be flung to far corners of new Wilmington, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety, while others struggle to escape certain deaths. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may not see one another again, the Bylers must rely on ingenuity, hope and inner strength to persevere.