The government the Delaneys live under has openly endorsed abortion in all its forms, the legitimation of homosexuality and the rejection of traditional religious freedom. The government also endorses a new, worldwide religion comprising elements of all religions and subservient to the government, a tool, really, of the government. This third novel in the series takes place in the near future. The government has recently seized total control. The Antichrist is already on the scene in Europe. The government the Delaneys live under is already considering a one-world government with a one-world religion under this charismatic rising star in Europe. The novel covers about one year in the life of Arrow Delaney, an eight year old child pursued by the government because he witnessed a government massacre of a hippie commune he and his mother lived in and, on the same day, a second massacre in a nearby religious convent.

Friends help him escape. He almost is captured, but escapes from the police van, hops a freight train and disappears. He tries hiding in a large junk yard, but the owner, Alice Douglas, discovers him. Alice takes him home. She has already rescued a retarded child from a dumpster where he had been discarded alive by the medical researchers no longer interested in studying him. Alice has some brushes with the state trying to protect Arrow. Finally, the state realizes she is harboring Arrow and sends agents to apprehend him. Alice holds the agents at gunpoint while Arrow escapes. Finally, Arrow finds a safe haven with a "remnant" group who wait out Antichrist's rise and fall.