Outside the Capitol, America struggles.Inside, Peter does, too.While Peter suffers alone, New America faces its most difficult challenges yet. But the group finds themselves shut up in the Capitol, with the distance between themselves and their country growing by the day. A lockdown pairing reveals family secrets, and the Sector Five disease continues to poison the nation while Diana, Kiara, Lucas, and Cameron attempt to keep New America afloat.Diana and Lucas' relationship blooms and grows while Peter and Cameron's withers. Without their missing piece, the group must face these new hindrances while lacking Peter's familiar presence and relying on three new doctors who will do their best to bring safety back to New America... if that's possible at all.But as Peter's condition worsens, hope begins to dwindle.Will he get better? Nobody knows. And if he doesn't, how will that affect the nature of New America as a whole?