A young California woman, Maddie Crawford, falls headlong into the world of QAnon. Her beliefs take her to to the Capitol, attending with her eccentric aunt the Stop the Steal Rally on January 6th, and later enmeshed in the violence that followed. Maddie returns to San Diego, imagining that the local school board plans to indoctrinate children in critical race theory. Her solution is to commit an act of terrorism. Maddie's journey jumps political and criminal paths as she and her family have become embroiled in a living nightmare.