After crashing out of Europe, the UK has splintered. What remains of New Britain has become an increasingly divided nation. High-tech gallows, a triumph of New British engineering, awaits its first execution. Norman Marshall works for Home Security, rooting out saboteurs-but his wife, Jenny, is working as an agent for the resistance. Jenny warns Rohan Dhillon that he has been Verified Not British. He and his kids are next on the list for Re-Migration. Meanwhile, bodies of VNBs are being washed up on Kent beaches... A Hard Fall imagines a plausible future of how a hard Brexit might play out.