The Fate Of Man takes place twenty years after World War III. It is a story about a young man, Shepard, who lives in the northern mountains of Montana with a small group of other survivors. With his camp in its death throes, Shepard is chosen to journey across a nuclear wasteland to find what is rumored to be a New Capital, where a new government and society is being established. His goal is to find this capital and bring back help for his clan in Montana.