An event like the Rapture hit the United States
such that every family experienced the disappearance of a love one. Grief and dismay settled upon society, such that religious cults flourished and families became dysfunctional. Kevin Garvey was the new mayor of Mapleton. Her tried to carry on in spite of his wife and son joining peculiar communal groups. Eventually he found some support in a neighbour, whose husband and young children has been taken. An imaginative, but provocative, look at loss and connection.
