Famine, Pestilence, Conquest, and Death have ravaged the earth leaving it infertile of new human life. The people have surrendered their freedoms to the reign of a tyrannical technocracy, in hopes of survival. This is the story of a family, of extremists, and their duties to God or His enemy. What things are neglected boys capable of when sheltered by the wicked? To what lengths would dying traditions go to survive? Families are broken and blood of the innocent is spilled by force. The Stork, once a symbol of new life, has become a wielder of death itself.