In the middle of the last century, Lidie Newton and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into America's heartland. To Lidie, Kansas seems like a new place entirely. We can't tell if anything we already know is true. The truth proves harsher than any would-be homesteaders around her could have imagined. Lidie, her family and her friends, find themselves on a faultline as two great American forces rumble and crash against each other, soon to erupt into the bloodiest war the world has seen yet seen - The American Civil War.