Young Tom Brown's life is not that of a typical teenager in the year 2020. His father is in a mental institution, and Tom and the rest of his family live a "self-sufficient" lifestyle that focuses on his father's paranoia and distrust for the government. Little does Tom know that his father, once a brain researcher for a top-secret government entity, was right about a lot of things. In a shocking twist of events, Tom's life goes from dull and monotonous to terrifying. He makes a discovery that will lead him and his family to begin a battle to protect the rights of mankind against "Big Brother" and a sinister government program called "Project Mastermind."