As several missing persons cases sprout like weeds in a small town, a group of coworkers realize that this human trafficking problem is starting to hit home for them. With the likes of a strange science organization, and a mystery man by many names, things begin to go terribly wrong in Sanford. As the missing persons cases begin to get drowned out by the election, Senator Preston Conrad is posed to return to his hometown in hopes of winning re-election. All the while Mayor Anastasia Harlan prepares the 2020 Florida Senator Debate, so long as a respiratory virus doesn't destroy everything she has been working so hard towards.