A coterie of stolen women fight back against their government captors, destroying the black agency that imprisoned them and exacting justice.

SYNOPSIS:

Aurora Chase wakes naked and afraid in a room she can’t remember. Next to her is the corpse of a man clutching her red dress. Terrified, she breaks free of his icy grip to flee the room into a perilous environment that promises nothing but danger.

In the hall she hears a faint tune whisper through the air. She follows it to cautiously open a door to a couple having sex. The woman pleads for help, clearly in the midst of rape. Aurora grabs a heavy lamp and clubs the assailant, knocking him senseless. The woman, Grace Hunt, grabs clothes and Aurora and they sprint away.

Slamming to the outside they set off alarms. Grace knows if they’re caught they’re finished. So, she leads them into the winter forest and away from the Indoctrination Security Agency. It’s their only hope.

In a heartbeat armed soldiers from ISA are upon them. The underbrush is just enough cover. They narrowly escape to hide in a cave.

The next day they trek toward freedom through light snow and frigid air. Grace vomits without warning, doubling over in pain. Coupled with the unexpected nosebleed the night before, Aurora recognizes a junkie when she sees one. It almost breaks them apart but for another ISA incursion. Scrambling for survival they are taken in by the Exiles – “Comforts” who escaped ISA before them.

Their singular goal is escape to expose the systematic ISA sex trafficking, but have so far failed. Aurora is the savior they need, even if she doesn’t know it herself.

Atop the ISA power structure is Oliver Granderson, a dismissive, arrogant and clever bureaucrat worried only about the end product. It doesn’t matter the method, he believes in his madness, even if it means subjecting his subjects to a sinister drug that wipes their memories. Information manipulation and human manipulation are one and the same. All for national security.

His second is Harley Kincaid. A calculating underling ever searching for cracks in the armor. The Comforts, the technicians, Granderson.

Unbeknownst to Aurora, or anyone, Grace is under Harley’s Machiavellian spell, manipulating her into spy craft for his own ends. She betrays her sisters by stealing away to inform him of their number and location. It’s a simple matter of contain and capture from that point on.

Aurora, as the leader, is put in isolation. Her soundproof cell is silence absolute. It leaves her senseless, disoriented and on edge. Into this void comes Grace over a speaker. She tries to re-indoctrinate Aurora, but Aurora resists. In the midst of her decline Aurora’s thrown a lifeline when a dull guard brings her food. She lures him into a false sense of security and overpowers him with cunning and martial arts. She flees to another state of emergency.

She rescues the imprisoned exiles and forms a plan to take the fight to their tormentors. Using their hubris against them, she leads an assault on the installation that ends with Kincaid shooting Granderson, the control room destroyed and ISA in ruins. The Exiles send an SOS over the platforms ISA manipulated. It goes viral, but they don’t know it yet.

They steal a truck and drive as far and fast as they can. Within a hundred miles of freedom they’re forced back on foot. In the middle of nowhere with only their wits they encounter a platoon of trained security led by an injured and angry Kincaid. He demands their submission. Unfortunately for him, his guards have other ideas.

Ordered to back away, his security leave him alone. It’s Aurora’s chance and she takes it, kicking him to the ground and pouncing on him, knife in hand.

Unrepentant, he spills the details about diaxomythemide – how it has no affect on men, is transferred through semen and causes amnesia in women. In his words, “Win win.” Furious, she’s cuts him twice but leaves him alive – as a bargaining chip.

Their viral message alerts the FBI to ISA abuses and their own whereabouts. They are finally rescued, but not before they try to shoot down the reconnaissance helicopter sent to find them.

In the end justice is served, Kincaid is in jail, Grace is an accomplice and the Exiles finally get home.