The Handmaid's Tale

The story takes place in the future, in the Republic of Gilead, where the military is in power. The country has strict rules and customs, and only officers and their wives are respected in society. In addition to the totalitarian nature of the society, there is a serious problem in the future world: infertility. Only one in a hundred women is capable of reproducing. To continue the officer family line, families take in a servant, a surrogate mother, from among ordinary women who are capable of childbearing. Once the duty is fulfilled, the servant must part with her child and join the service of her new masters.