In a dystopian United States renamed Gilead, a theocratic government has established a strict hierarchy where women are treated as inferior citizens. Those who attempt to flee are brutally punished. The story follows June, a young woman who is captured while trying to escape with her family and is forced to become a Handmaid, a reproductive servant bound to bear children for powerful government officials.
Offred, one of the few fertile women known as Handmaids in the oppressive Rep...