Somewhere over the Niagara Front, two USAAC Orenco OD-3 fighter-scouts come under attack by a lone Canadian S.E.5 piloted by Billy Bishop, whom American pilots have dubbed 'Hell's Handmaiden'. The Canuck has already sent one in flames, and the second is trying his best to evade his pursuer and shake him off. The Yankee glances up in horror as Bishop does an overpass in his attempt to gain an advantageous firing position on him.

As the highest-scoring pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Service during the Great War, Bishop was seen as a hero of Canada's fight against the superior numbers of American forces. He was a rare light amid the darkness of Canadian despair, with the devastation of Canada's fleet, the successes of the Danes and Oregonians in the far north of the country, the Quebec Uprising, and the devastation of Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal at the claws of US artillery and bombers.