She thinks about the previous Handmaid who left a Latin message scratched into the wall. She remembers her spunky friend Moira, her activist mother, and the loss of her daughter and her husband, Luke. Offred puts on a red uniform and goes on a shopping trip with Ofglen, and afterwards they stop by the Wall to look at the bodies of recently executed men.
The scene changes to her current residence, where she lives with a Commander and his wife, Serena Joy. The novel begins with Offred, the first-person narrator, remembering her restricted life at the Rachel and Leah Center, a training camp for Handmaids in an old high school. The United States has fallen, overthrown by a theocratic regime, founded on rigid Christian principles and the disempowerment of women, which has installed a new nation called Gilead in its place.
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