Getting the green light from her network to launch an investigative news show, Erica Sparks flies to Bismarck, North Dakota, to investigate Take Back Our Homeland, the largest secessionist group. When Erica's informant is murdered in her Bismarck hotel, she becomes one of the key players in the her own story. Back home, her husband Greg is drinking more-- and taking an interest in the glamorous author Leslie Burke Wilson. And Erica's teenage daughter has also begun acting out in troubling ways.