It is 2099 and America has been controlled by a brutal dictatorship for 70 years. Democracy isn’t just dead; it’s been erased from history. For Joe Carlton, bartender at The Patriot’s Grill, concepts of self-government and individual liberty are unimaginable. But then an old man, with an unbelievable story, wanders into the Grill and everything changes — for Joe and for the nation.