Professor Joseph Lawrence gets mixed up with Sons of Jacob

Joseph Lawrence misses out on university tenure, only to be pressed into service by The Sons of Jacob, who he despises. Trying to avoid the Handmaid program as a Commander, he's a first-hand witness to resistance activity, which he abides because it gives his deteriorating wife some purpose. Helped by a well placed frat-brother, he stays alive to become an architect of Gilead.