Claude Rains features as a man who returns from a fishing vacation to find America controlled by fascists.

The new government makes prominent and continual use of an emblem consisting of two crossed swords over two fascist bundles (a bundle of rods with an axe: the pre-Nazi symbol for fascism) in much the way the Swastika had been employed by Nazi Germany.

Flying back, the plane develops problems and they crash-land in a field in a remote location.

He meets the building manager, Regan, who says they thought Stevenson was dead, but will not explain why the business is not operating.

He awakes in jail, where another prisoner gives him water and tells him that the American Constitution has been changed by those now in charge.

When he sleeps, he dreams of an alternative future and sees a picnic with another family; his daughter has grown up and is being courted.