Carter Woodhead rules the Northwest Aryan Brotherhood as Grand Wizard. His daughter, Cheryl, has had her entire life shaped with bias. She questions, but knows no other life. Her world is shaken - twice. First, when her father and husband die trying to make a bomb. She declares that she wants out of the Brotherhood. Leaving isn't easy because the Brotherhood and its new leader, Erwin Kruger, fear Cheryl knows too much. Then, a massive earthquake destroys the nearby small town in which she hopes to start a new life. When the National Guard arrives, she meets a young doctor and the world opens up to her. When Kruger manages to pull off the perfect plot of mass mayhem, only Cheryl has the knowledge to bring Kruger down. But at what cost?