12 FBI agents meet at a lodge in northern Wisconsin.  They lock themselves in a meeting room and shout at each other for a week.  When they leave, one agent stays behind - Sara.  Sara has created a computer model that predicts which counties will fail – and when.  Within a day, the Russians come for her.  Isolated on a small lake surrounded by forest, Catherine tries to protect Sara.  And fails.  She and Sara are taken to Russia, back to a woman she had married years earlier.  Held in a cottage deep in the forests outside Moscow, Catherine becomes the caretaker of a four year old girl with her own strange history.  She must protect that child and somehow get Sara back to the U.S.