Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is  set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the  United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats  women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental  disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a  desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining  fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. One of these women,  Offred, is determined to survive the terrifying world she lives in, and  find the daughter that was taken from her.