When a catastrophic solar surprise results in the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are actually dark. Planes possess plummeted to the bottom. The systems of modern life have got crumbled. Using their stocked larders and stores of items, the Amish are unaffected at first. But as the British (the Amish name for those non-Amish people) are more and even more desperate, linked with emotions . invade Amish farms, acquiring whatever they need and unleashing unthinkable violence in the peaceable community.

Seen through the journal of the Amish farmer named Jacob as he tries to safeguard his family and his way of life, When the British Fall examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos: Should people of a nonviolent society defy their beliefs and take up arms to guard themselves? And if they don’t, can they survive?