At the onset of winter, the old man's life abruptly changes the day he stumbles upon a pagan cult of female survivalists. The Society of Sisters has been living off the grid for fifteen years as they prepare for the end of days.

Under Sheila Carson's charismatic leadership, the clan has turned a lucky lottery ticket into a vast digital library of learning. As devoted followers of Athenia, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war, it is the sisterhood's sacred duty to preserve knowledge in service to civilization. It is the only way to prevent the fall of a new dark age, which must inevitably follow in the wake of an apocalyptic event.

Dennis Richards is in a box with no exit. The women of the Society do not want him there, and he doesn't want to be there. They can't let him go because no man alive is allowed to know their home. They refuse to kill him, for he has done them no harm, and he can not stay because he is not one of them.

By the way, it is snowing.