The Handmaid’s Tale Complete season 5 (DVD)-English onlyDetails A religion based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.