Kelly's life is on a downward turn as the situation in the country becomes worse and worse. One way of ensuring a job and an income is to get a job with the local Commissioner and be his domestic servant. She, Gary, Jo and Ben are accepted into the household but far from being ordinary servants, they find themselves under the crops and canes of savage overseers, scrubbing floors, being used in every way imaginable.

Gary is part of the underground movement trying to overthrow the regime but even he has to suffer, as he desperately clings to the hope that they will be rescued from what turns out to be hell!