In the tumultuous May of 2038, a group of corrupt New York corporate interests secretly conspire with government to hijack the city and the once proud U.S. from its citizens. A complacent, indifferent citizenry soon finds itself enmeshed in a gathering storm of terrorism, its exact perpetrators unknown. Trapped between a New York they thought they lived in and one they see about to change forever, three of the city’s corporate elite turn against their own, joining forces with New York’s civic-minded female governor and a cadre of ordinary citizens to expose a conspiracy running deep inside the city’s power structure. If left unchecked, a national power grab looks inevitable.