KGB colonel Andrei Denisov plans to use patriotic pragmatist Peter Bradford to further America's pacification.

Family bitterness at his homecoming drives Devin Milford to live among the "exiles"; the Milford Day parade provides a surprise emotional release for the subjugated Americans.

Bradford readies for higher office; Milford risks arrest to search for his children; UNSS forces attack the exile camp in Milford.

Milford rides an underground railroad to Chicago, where he links up with a resistance movement that also attracts Kimberly, whose anti-Soviet cabaret show is raided.

Bradford pursues a policy of appeasement, the UNSS reasserts its control in Milford, and the USSR unleashes a brutal show of force in Washington, D.C.

In the wake of rescue missions and reprisals, a revolution springs up in Milford.