A young American is stranded in Scotland without any idea of how this has happened. She fights to discover the hidden forces of a shadowy organisation responsible for her abduction. She has been the victim of people trafficking, but her trafficker betrays the organisation due to a hopeless juvenile infatuation with her for which pays with his life.

She lands among a group of isolated people, one of whom shows genuine affection for her but which she only at length is able to return. Her new companion, and an eccentric retired policeman, have been forced to recognise what is going on in the world by what has happened to her.

Accompanied by her two new companions, the trio takes the fight to California to try to discover the nature of who has done this to her. There they meet up with other rebels and they achieve some success in fighting the organisation, but their progress becomes increasingly violent as their enemy in turn reacts with ever greater fury. When it overplays its hand, it ruthlessly turns on its own to cover its tracks and retreat to obscurity. But only to wait for its next opportunity.