Set in a near-future New England, a strongly patriarchal, quasi-Christian, totalitarian state, known as the Republic of Gilead has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Kate, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" - the ruling class of men. It is based on the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel of the same name.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(film)