This is the story of Nat Banks an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past who loses his family farm Greenwood to a pair of land speculators from Washington DC When the predatory couple manipulates a legal real estate transaction that turns into a hostile possession of the manor house he temporarily loses his mind leaving his family but not the farm Instead he hides out in a cave on Goose Creek waging guerilla warfare against expansionism and the destruction of historic property with the help of his family friends and neighbors