Forty children try to form a society in a 19th-century New Mexico ghost town.

The pioneers divide over where and how to get a new source of food.

The town council makes some tough law-and-order decisions that do not please all of the pioneers.

Religious differences and pioneer ire bubble to the surface after a council suggestion.

The pioneers learn that they will have the chance to elect a new town council, but the current members must prepare to run for re-election.

The pioneers struggle with the town's growing pollution problem.