Several years after a rapture-like event in which millions of people world-wide suddenly vanish without explanation, the citizens of Mapleton, NY are still struggling to cope with the massive loss and resulting culture shift. the story is told episodically, revolving around the four members of the Garvey family, who have each begun an unlikely relationship following the event.
a few years ago there have been a similar "Christian community" For something like that, millions of people all over the world suddenly disappeared without any reason. The people of Melpton, New York are still struggling with huge losses and the cultural changes caused by them. The story revolves around a family of 4 Garvey. Since this incident, their relationship with each other has become hopeless.
Kevin Garvey – The patriarch of the Garvey family, Kevin is a prominent local business man enjoying early retirement during the event. Afterwards, he is compelled to run for mayor of Mapleton to replace the psychologically compromised incumbent. Kevin stresses the importance of returning to normality as a way for the survivors to cope through initiatives like survivor's mixers and adult recreation leagues. The other major policy of his tenure in office is an effort to ease tension between the town and the Guilty Remnant, an ascetic religious group that aims to provoke people into remembering the losses of the event and how meaningless life is. Following a violent conflict between police and the GR, Kevin has taken a hands off approach to their existence, preferring to ignore them entirely.
Kevin: Parent Kevin was a successful businessman enjoying early retirement at the time of the incident. After the incident, in order to replace the current Mayor of Melpton, who had a mental breakdown, he had to run for this position. In order to cope with the rise of sports such as "survivor groups" or "adult entertainment leagues", Kevin proposes that the living should return to normal lives. Another important policy during his tenure is to try to ease the tension between the citizens and GR. GR is a religious group like ascetic monks, trying to make people remember this thing all the time and realize how meaningless life is. After a violent conflict between the police and GR, Kevin relaxed his attention to them, hoping to get rid of them completely.
Kevin's wife leaves him to join the Guilty Remnant and he struggles to balance raising his daughter actively while respecting her privacy while she deals with the event and the breaking up of the Garvey family. He also finds he is unable to sustain new relationships with women, making a few failed attempts. Kevin develops a relationship with Nora Durst, a woman who has become quasi famous in Mapleton for losing her husband and both children in the event. Nora suffers a major depressive episode following the loss of her family, obsessively watching her children's favorite TV show, avoiding the holidays, and riding her bike for hours at a time. Nora is dealt a further blow when the town pastor, who has become a muckraking amateur journalist to reconcile how the event may have invalidated his own beliefs,publishes a tract that reveals Nora's husband had been carrying on an affair with her children's much younger preschool teacher.
Kevin's wife left him to join GR. On the one hand, he must actively raise his daughter, on the other hand, he also respects the privacy of his daughter in dealing with the broken family and the incident. He also found that he could not maintain a new relationship with a woman, and he had several failed attempts. Kevin and Nora are getting better. Nora lost her husband and two children in the incident and became famous in Melpton. She fell into a deep depression after losing her family. She kept watching her children's favorite TV shows, avoided festivals, and rode for a few hours. When the pastor in the city told her that there was evidence that her husband had an affair with her child's young preschool teacher, Nora suffered another blow. In order to maintain his beliefs and reconcile the conflict between it and this incident, the pastor became an amateur reporter who exposed the scandal.
Kevin and Nora connect at a mixer after Nora confronts her former husband's mistress. Nora finds she has more sympathy than she expected with the woman over their mutual frustration with her husband's emotional distance and manipulation. Nora pursues Kevin, who is hesitant, but impulsively agrees to take a trip to Florida with her. Afterwards they settle into a relationship, but Nora is bothered that she does not feel like the'good girlfriend' she was always proud of being in college. Their burgeoning relationship falls apart on Valentine's Day when Kevin breaks one of the conventions of their arrangement by sharing personal feelings about his family, which makes Nora uncomfortable. She leaves him at the restaurant when he goes to the restroom.
After Nora went to meet her husband's mistress, she met with Kevin in a group. Nora finds that she sympathizes with the woman more than she thought, and they are both hurt by the feelings her husband plays with. Nora pursues Kevin. Kevin hesitated but finally agreed to travel to Florida with her. Eventually they fell in love, but Nora found out that she was no longer the "good girlfriend" she was proud of in college, and she was confused. On Valentine's Day, Kevin talked to her about his feelings about family affairs, which made Nora feel unhappy, and their relationship ended. When he went to the bathroom, Nora left the restaurant.
Kevin is served divorce papers by his wife, and realizes that his daughter is in danger of not graduating high school. He has fallen into a domestic routine with his daughter's friend, Aimee, who has been living with them, drinking coffee together in the morning before they both go to work. Kevin is alarmed at the increasing flirtation between them, culminating that Spring. He resolves to avoid being alone with Aimee to suspend the flirtation. The Spring softball league begins and even though his team is short handed Kevin plays anyway He finds great satisfaction in the game and his ability to handle a fly ball, even in adverse conditions.
Kevin received his wife’s divorce agreement and realized that his daughter might not finish high school. Kevin and his daughter's friend Aimme drink coffee together before going to work in the morning, and Aimme lives with them. Kevin became alert to the increasing flirtation between them. He avoids being alone with Aimme. The spring softball league kicked off. Although Kevin's team was short of major generals, he still insisted on participating. He felt great during the game, and even caught a high fly ball with his back.
Nora decides to leave Mapleton and adopt a new identity. She bleaches her hair but finds it's difficult to completely shed her identity when it comes time to sell her house. She writes a letter to leave for Kevin, explaining why she ran from him. In it, she is finally able to admit her ambivalence towards her family at the exact moment they disappeared, which had been a troubling source of guilt and anger. Opting to hand deliver the letter instead of mail it Nora discovers an infant left on the Garvey doorstep , instantly bonding with the child just as Kevin returns from his game.
Nora decides to leave Melpton for a new identity. She dyed her hair white, but when she sold the house, she found it difficult to hide her identity completely. She wrote a letter to Kevin explaining why she left him. In the letter, she finally admitted that at the moment they disappeared, what kind of ambivalence she held towards her family was also the source of her guilt and anger. She chose to send the letter to Kevin instead of sending it. When she got to Kevin's door, she found a baby. When Kevin returned home after the game, she happened to see her holding the baby.
Laurie Garvey – Kevin's wife. Laurie is a new recruit in the Guilty Remnant, a religious group she was initially skeptical of, but is recruited to after her best friend joins. The GR are mute, wear all white, must always smoke in public, and stage silent confrontations with the people of Mapleton. Their goal is to remind everyone that they have been left behind in the event, and prevent the resumption of the status quo. After Laurie's integration into the group she is assigned a trainee, Meg. Meg is younger and less emotionally stable than Laurie, frequently remembering the wedding she had been planning before joining the GR. The two form a strong friendship and perform their GR duties, following around townspeople and confronting people from their former lives. Meg must confront her former fiancé,who she is distressed to learn has begun new relationships and seems to have resumed his old life. Laurie is asked to serve her husband divorce papers to gain access to half of the family assets, because this is how the GR can afford to maintain operations. On Christmas Meg and Laurie visit Kevin. He treats them like regular holiday visitors, and before they leave gives Laurie the gift their daughter left for her, a lighter. Touched by the gift Laurie uses the lighter once, but then must throw it out to remain within the tenets of the GR.and before they leave gives Laurie the gift their daughter left for her, a lighter. Touched by the gift Laurie uses the lighter once, but then must throw it out to remain within the tenets of the GR.and before they leave gives Laurie the gift their daughter left for her, a lighter. Touched by the gift Laurie uses the lighter once, but then must throw it out to remain within the tenets of the GR.
Laura is Kevin's wife. At first she was skeptical of GR, but after her best friend joined, she also joined. GR wears white clothes, mute, always smokes in public, and uses silence to confront the masses of Melpton. They just want to tell everyone that they are the people who stayed behind after the incident, to prevent people from going back to their previous lives. After Laura joins the organization, she will bring an apprentice-Meg. Meg is younger and more emotionally unstable than Laura, and she often thinks of the wedding she was preparing before joining GR. The two have a deep friendship. They perform GR's mission together, follow the citizens and prevent them from returning to their former lives. Meg learned that her fiancé had started a new relationship and seemed to be back in a very painful life, she tried to stop him. GR ordered Laura to divorce and obtain half of his husband's property, which is the way to maintain GR's operations. At Christmas, Meg and Laura go to Kevin. Kevin entertained them like ordinary guests, and gave Laura her daughter a gift, a lighter, before leaving. The gift moved Laura. She used it to light a cigarette, but immediately threw it away. She must comply with GR's regulations.
Laurie and Meg are “promoted” to live in an outpost, a four person dwelling that provides many of the comforts they lost living in Guilty Remnant dorms, like privacy, better food, a hot tub, soft beds and less supervision. At first they are worried that living with the two men who already occupy the house will cause conflict and sexual tension, but the men are revealed to be in a secret romantic relationship and their personalities mesh well. One of the men is murdered while on their GR rounds, a troubling trend among the Remnant who resist all police investigation. Laurie's daughter, Jill, comes across the scene shortly after the murder and we learn that the GR has enacted a program in which one outpost member is commanded to kill the other as a sacrament.
Laura and Meg have been promoted and can live in a four-person residence outside, which provides comfortable living not in the GR dormitory, such as more privacy, better food, hot tubs, soft beds, and Less surveillance. At first, they were worried about conflicts and sexual harassment with the two men who had already lived here, but then they discovered that there was a mysterious romantic relationship between the two men, and their personalities matched. During an inspection, one of them was killed, and GR's people refused to investigate by the police. Laura's daughter Gil occasionally passed by the scene shortly after the murder, and found that GR ordered one of them to kill the other, like a sacrificial ritual.
Laurie and Meg grow closer living in the outpost alone, sharing the same bed and developing a nonsexual although romantic domestic union. The day comes when a new pair is introduced into the outpost, signaling the end of Laurie and Meg's time together. Laurie holds a gun to Meg's head but is unable to pull the trigger, even with Meg's encouragement that she will be delivered by the act. Meg takes the gun and shoots herself, which Laurie sees as a final act of love. Collecting the gun Laurie is whisked away by a Guilty Remnant car, leaving town.
Laura and Meg live alone in the house, and the relationship is closer. They sleep in a bed and live a sexually romantic life. One day a new couple came, which meant that Laura and Meg's life was over. Laura pointed a gun at Meg's head, but couldn't pull the trigger. Meg encouraged her to complete the task. Meg took the gun and shot herself, which Laura felt was the last expression of love. Putting away the gun, Laura was taken away by GR's car and left the city.
Jill Garvey-Kevin and Laurie's daughter, a senior in high school who was smart and hardworking but is struggling in the post-rapture world, especially since her mother left the house to join the Guilty Remnant. Jill's new friend, Aimee, has moved into the house because she cannot live with her stepfather after her mother disappeared in the event. Aimee, also a senior, dresses provocatively and often encourages Jill to skip school and experiment (smoke weed, sex, etc.). The two attend regular parties at another teen's house, which always culminate in a variation of spin the bottle that pairs up the partygoers for random sexual encounters. The two girls carry on like this but find satisfaction in a happy “normal” Christmas spent exchanging gifts with Kevin. Kevin encourages the girls to resume their neglected educations;Jill agrees but Aimee decides to drop out to become a waitress. With Aimee more preoccupied with her job, Jill doesn't find the same amount of distraction when going to the same parties. She resolves that Aimee was the catalyst that made these events work with her talent for pushing things forward. Jill is distraught to learn that Laurie did not keep the lighter Jill got her for Christmas. She attends her last party and leaves early, opting to cut across a railyard instead of taking a ride from a set of twins Aimee is friends with. In the railyard Jill discovers the corpse of a GR member who she does not know had been her mother's housemate.She resolves that Aimee was the catalyst that made these events work with her talent for pushing things forward. Jill is distraught to learn that Laurie did not keep the lighter Jill got her for Christmas. She attends her last party and leaves early, opting to cut across a railyard instead of taking a ride from a set of twins Aimee is friends with. In the railyard Jill discovers the corpse of a GR member who she does not know had been her mother's housemate.She resolves that Aimee was the catalyst that made these events work with her talent for pushing things forward. Jill is distraught to learn that Laurie did not keep the lighter Jill got her for Christmas. She attends her last party and leaves early, opting to cut across a railyard instead of taking a ride from a set of twins Aimee is friends with. In the railyard Jill discovers the corpse of a GR member who she does not know had been her mother's housemate.In the railyard Jill discovers the corpse of a GR member who she does not know had been her mother's housemate.In the railyard Jill discovers the corpse of a GR member who she does not know had been her mother's housemate.
Jill is the daughter of Kevin and Laura, a high school student, smart and hardworking, but struggling in the "post-promotion" era, especially after her mother left to join GR. Jill's new friend Aimee moved in to live with her. After Aimme's mother disappeared that day, she could not live with her stepfather. Aimme is also a high school student, wearing sexy clothes, and always encourages Jill to skip class to do something exciting, such as smoking marijuana, sex, and so on. The two girls lived like this until they had a happy and normal Christmas with Kevin and exchanged gifts. They were happy. Kevin encourages them to complete their abandoned school, Jill agrees, but Aimme decides to give up school and become a hostess. As Aimme became more and more occupied by work, Jill found that attending the previous gatherings was not so attractive. She found that Aimme had the ability to make things attractive. After learning that Laura had thrown away the gift Jill gave her, Jill was deeply saddened. She attended the last party and left early. Instead of riding in the car of Aimee's twin friends, she chose to go home through the railway yard. There Jill found the body of a GR. She didn't know that this person was her mother's roommate.
That spring Jill has a chance encounter with one of her favorite teachers who is now a member of the GR. Under the guise of helping Jill with school work, she is invited to attend a “sleep over” at the GR compound. Jill anticipates the stay and possibly seeing her mother again, packing her bags. Meanwhile Aimee's relationship with Kevin has become blurred and threatens to turn sexual. Aimee resolves to move out rather than escalate things with Kevin. Jill leaves for the GR compound without her father's knowledge, but on the way runs into the twins again, who invite her to play ping pong. She agrees and is hopeful that one of the twins seems to like her, realizing that in that moment she is happy.
In the spring, Jill met one of her favorite teachers, who is now also a member of GR. He pretended to help Jill with some school work and invited her to participate in an activity "sleep over" in GR. Jill stayed behind to participate in the event, seeming to see her mother, she was packing up. At the same time, the relationship between Aimme and Kevin became ambiguous and developed towards a sexual relationship. Aimme decided to move out instead of continuing to develop the relationship. Jill left GR's activities without her father's knowledge and got mixed up with the twins again. They invited her to play table tennis. She agreed. She felt that one of the twins liked her, and being aware of it made her feel a little bit happy.
Tom Garvey-The older of the two Garvey children, Tom is in college during the event. He returns home after all the schools shut down in the aftermath and drinks every night at the local bar, sharing news that trickles back of who had been taken . School resumes and Tom joins a fraternity which somewhat deifies one of their disappeared brothers. He becomes uninterested in school. One of his fraternity brothers reveals the fallacy of their fraternity's hero, and together they stumble across a New Age movement in which a man claims he can absorb the pain of others through hugs. Tom becomes wholly invested in the movement and climbs in the ranks, moving all over the country and cutting off almost all contact with his family. In San Francisco the movement takes on cultish overtones that trouble Tom . He remains faithful to Holy Wayne,the group's leader, but is marginalized when he questions some new aspects of the group.
Tom was in college at the time of the incident. After the incident, the school closed, he returned home, went to the bar every night to drink, share information, and count who was taken away. After the school was reopened, Tom joined a fraternity and enshrined one of their missing brothers as a god. He lost interest in school. A member of the Brotherhood discovered that their hero had made a mistake. Later, they joined the "New Era" movement together, and one of them claimed to be able to absorb the pain of others by hugging. Tom devoted himself to this movement, was promoted quickly, and hurried around the country, cutting off all contact with his family. In San Francisco, the cult color of this movement haunts Tom. He was still loyal to the leader of the organization, Saint Wayne, but was marginalized when he questioned something about the organization.
It is discovered that Holy Wayne has “spiritually married” a number of underage Asian girls and is being brought up on criminal charges. The “brides” are sent into hiding and Tom is tasked with transporting one of them, Christine, across the country to Boston. They must travel in secret because Christine is pregnant and concrete proof of the charges against Wayne. In turn the group, including Christine, believes she is carrying the son of God.
Saint Wayne was charged with a crime for "spiritually bonding" with some underage Asian women. These brides will be transferred and hidden, and Tom is responsible for sending Christine to Boston. They must act secretly because Christine is pregnant, which is strong evidence against Wien. But within the organization, including Christine, thought she was pregnant with the son of God.
Tom and Christine disguise themselves as members of a free love movement, the Barefoot People, and travel by foot and bus across country. They become close friends and easily fall into their cover story of a romantically linked couple. On a bus trip they accidentally convert a soldier into a Barefoot person, a group they don't actually belong to. Arriving in Boston is a disappointment to Tom, who now has to share Christine with the Holy Wayne couple that has been charged with overseeing the delivery of their Messiah. Tom enjoys spending time in the contemplative Barefoot People community and maintains his cover. Shortly before Christine delivers her child, a girl, Holy Wayne admits guilt and repents for his crimes. The Holy Wayne community is shattered, and Christine is despondent.
Tom and Christine disguised as members of the free love movement, the Barefoot Party, and traveled through the country on foot and by bus. They became good friends and it was easy to pretend to be lovers in love. During a bus trip, they accidentally persuaded a soldier to join the Barefoot Party—an organization that none of them joined. After arriving in Boston, Tom was very disappointed, and now he must tell Christine about the accusations of the Saint Wien and his wife. They overestimated their Messiah. Tom likes the meditation session of the barefoot party, and still pretends to be a barefoot party. Shortly after Christine gave birth to a daughter, St. Wayne pleaded guilty and repented of his crime. The St. Wien organization collapsed, and Christine was very frustrated.
Christine wants to return home to Ohio because she doesn't know what else to do, and Tom takes her. He plans on stopping off in Mapleton to see his family again, hoping that it will encourage Christine, who has little interest in her daughter . At a rest stop Tom forces Christine to interact with her child, but when he leaves them to use the restroom she abandons Tom and her child to join a group of Barefoot People. Tom takes the baby with him to Mapleton and is surprised to see the town has not changed in his absence. He leaves the baby on his father's doorstep, knowing she will be well looked after, and leaves to pursue Christine and a life as a Barefoot Person.
Christine doesn't know what to do, she wants to return to her home in Ohio. Tom took her away. On the way, he wanted to return to Melpton to visit his family, hoping that this would inspire Christine. She has no interest in children at all. In a resting place, Tom forced Christine to take care of the child, but when he went to the bathroom, she abandoned Tom and the child to join the barefoot party. Tom took the child to Melpton and was surprised to find that the city had not changed much after he left. He put the child at his father's door, knowing that she would be well taken care of, then he left to find Christine and continued to live as a member of the barefoot party.
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