Baltimore,
the 1770s - Shopkeeper Samuel Oliphant has a lot on his plate. His country is
fighting for its freedom against the British, leaving him with less customers (dead
people tend to shop less
), and he has two redcoats living in his house:
One-eyed, one-armed, one-legged, one nostrilled conman Sergeant McGurk, and his
ineffectual officer Captain Brimshaw.
Samuel's family is no better. His wife became a lesbian, his eldest daughter
Cora is a strict Christian who is married the pompous pro-British official
Ezekiel Spriggs, his youngest daughter Mary is an anti-British pamphleteer who
has a crush on Brimshaw, and his only son Joshua is both incredibly strong and
incredibly stupid.
