In the year 2098, when a pact between the United States and Canada is put into motion, US Military protection is traded for the arranged trade of Canadian freshwater. Part of the trade pact was the dissolvement of the Canadian military under the grounds of redundancy. Two friends find their way through the cracks of the new collaboration, with the focal point of their lives being an off-the-grid compound they have built in northern Ontario.

Clarke, a construction superintendent, and veteran of a second war in Iraq, balances his life between work and the compound.

Ben, assistant minister of agriculture, tries to find why Canadian crop yields keep receding year after year-working with the country’s farmers to develop a solution.

Clarke and Ben will be tested to their limits as the commodities of the future become the driver of politics and conflict.