"The Handmaid's Tale" is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized "return to traditional values." As one of the few remaining fertile women Offred ... is a Handmaid in the Commander's household belonging to the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society Offred must navigate between Commanders their cruel wives domestic Marthas and her fellow Handmaids - where anyone could be a spy for Gilead - with one goal: to survive and find the daughter who was taken from her.
