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Throughout this seemingly utopian rise, Ricky contends with personal demons and the weight of his past. While he attempts to help navigate Earth's new reality, his girlfriend Ellie wrestles with the remnants of his first love and the inability to conceive children. Their relationship, dubbed a partnership of hope, starts showing cracks as they confront the emotional ties to their previous lives.
When Ricky is kidnapped by a resistance group known as the Freedom League, the duplicity of the situation is illuminated—a civil rift that challenges the peace the overlords promised. Ricky's steadfast commitment to Earth’s betterment is tested, and ultimately, he rejects the violent call of the Freedom League to destroy the very changes the aliens instituted.