Winnipeg - the “Chicago of the North” - is crippled by a six-week general strike, and becomes the continent’s battleground for the democratic dream. Mike Sokolowski and his godson Stefan have escaped Europe only to become “enemy aliens” in Canada. But where Stefan finds social justice in the strike, Mike sees a threat to his slave-wage job - his only hope of saving his family from revolution in Ukraine. When Stefan falls in love with Rebecca, the pro-strike Jewish suffragette (making a deportation target of them all), Mike turns against the strikers and their growing hope of changing the world. Old world hatreds and New World ambitions collide in an epic story of courage, passion and hope on a collision course with power.