Deep in the woods of Ohio, a religious community has lived in isolation for decades. A mysterious “sickness” has come and gone, depleting their population.
As the story begins, only a few families remain. Patriarchs Ben Clear and Carl King are planning to oust the town’s de facto leader, Old Saul. Meanwhile, an orphan called English meets a strange man by a riverbed, John Orr, who claims to come from a far-away city of great peace and prosperity. Knowing Old Saul will soon be out of power, English plans for Orr to interrupt a town meeting and promote himself as a new leader. The plan works, and the meeting ends with Old Saul’s fatal expulsion.
But as Orr's bizarre, dangerous ideas become more obvious, English and his sympathizers must confront him, and fight for the future of their people.
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