Nat Turner is a captured Resistance agent rotting away in a death row cell in a despotic place once known as America. As his date with the electric chair approaches, Turner keeps a diary in which he identifies the problems and difficulties that old America refused to address, and which directly led to the despotism which currently wracks the land. In between diary entries, we see Turner struggling through two earth shattering events: as a little boy on an arduous trek through the Idaho wilds with his parents as they try to escape to Canada; and as an adult some twenty-five years later, now a Resistance agent fighting the same tyrannical government he had once escaped from.
The reader will judge whether Turner’s interpretation of events are insightful observations, or the ruminations of a madman.
