The cast and crew of Tiffany McMillan's cooking show are stranded on a farm when a solar flare hits. Preppers, led by Bubba and Carol, have been monitoring the solar activity. Several stories unfold in the hours before the flare, Holly the perfectionist vegan, Briana the prepper girl, a home-school co-op group, and Skylar, the set designer for the Tiffany's show, are suddenly left in the dark.
Holly is stranded in an urban area. The girls of the cooking show take longer for the reality to set in, until they talk to their neighbor Mr. Buchanan. Briana grabs her go-bag and leaves school, while Dan and his mom plan to get the home-school kids back to their families on horse back. The preppers move into survival mode. Skylar is stuck in the hotel and has to decide to stay or leave.
The girls venture out and soon discover the utter chaos and destruction all around them, with many people in need, who's fate they are forced to decide. Meanwhile Bubba goes to town to check on his gun store. Briana is found after surviving weeks on her own, while Holly fights off attackers in the woods. Skylar has embraced her new reality and is taking survival to a different level.
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The hard work of daily survival begins to take its toll on the girls. Tiffany cracks under the pressure she has put on herself trying to keep a sense of normalcy. Nicole draws strength from memories of her father. Holly's journey comes to an end. The prepper camp continues to devolve even as they make contact with the outside world. Briana discovers the McMillan camp and meets Jason. The keep their continued meetings a secret from both camps.
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Tensions come to a head in the prepper camp. Meanwhile, the isolation of the farm drives the girls to plan a trip to Pioneer City. With the townspeople in need they decide to help, but it exposes them to unknown perils. While they are gone an accident happens on the farm, reminding them of how dangerous their new world really is.
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The farm is a house divided as the two camps split. This takes it's toll on both the "Foodies" and the "Gunnies". The girls decide that the return to barter in Pioneer city might be a good way to bring the two camps back together and bring some balance back to the farm. In Pioneer City they meet with both redemption and temptation.
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Danny finally pops the question, and asks Sandy to marry him. The farm is thrown into a whirlwind of preparation for the wedding. Order is restored to the prepper camp, but tensions begin to rise between Bubba and Nick, who refuses to take responsibility for his part in the kidnapping.