The First Episode of the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Motherhood Drama- The Handmaid's Tale. " A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred." - Description from our Online Catalogue Can't make it to Movie Night? Borrow it from the library and watch at home!