Rhys Kinnick, a cantankerous, retired, environmental journalist, fed up with the world, and especially his son-in-law, leaves society behind to live off the grid in a dilapidated family property in Washington’s woodlands. Shane, the son-in-law, is an ultra-nationalist, militant, gun-toting, MAGA-loving, conspiracy-saturated, super-Christian. Having established the two poles in a divided America, the author Jess Walter, puts forth a laugh aloud comedy. Shane’s wife, Bethany, runs off leaving her two children with Rhys who has barely talked to anyone in seven years. Rhys packs his newly arrived grandchildren into his raccoon-eaten, barely functional car and teams up with Crazy-Ass Chuck Littlefield to search for Bethany. Shane’s Army of the Lord (AOL) brothers-in-arms aim to find Bethany first. A madcap pursuit ensues, as does a subtle commentary on the nation’s current political divide.