This story takes place in a post-global-collapse future.In this second book of the After the Last Day saga, five families have fled north into a seemingly safer territory focused on Owen Sound and most of the former Grey and Bruce counties north of the Saugeen River. These refugees settle on a complex of three farms in the lower Beaver River valley and labour under the shadows of their lost past. The threat from the racist dictatorship colours their lives and for the next several years, they struggle to survive and hold the fascists at bay. The fight for freedom climaxes in a desperate battle beneath unfriendly November skies. Those skies turn into an ally, giving hope that a free future might be possible