It is a year before Plebiscite and the two provinces of The Lambda - The City and The Frontier - separated from each other by a gate can talk of little else. Governed by the Fairlanders, The Lambda may soon be free. The City is home to the old elite. The Frontier is a land denuded of trees, the pit of factories. The old elite are cobbled into a party, the Dongs. The Partisans urge fellow workers among school teachers, field hands, newspapermen to join the strike ...