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Meet the Hutterites—a small religious colony in rural Montana who holds desperately to their sacred traditions while fighting the modern temptations of the outside world. King Colony is made up of 59 people and they are almost all related. This family lives together, works together, and worships God together, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for their entire lives. And, like any family, this one doesn't always agree. Most of the colony is holding tight to the age-old traditions of their ancestors, while others are flirting with modern society. Some feel that bringing modern technology, education, and ideas into the colony will only help it, while others fear that this modern way of thinking threatens their very existence. We follow the men, the women, the young, and the old, as they strive to live as proper Hutterites. Some will succeed, some will fail, and everyone will have a choice to make. This is the very first glimpse into the world of the Hutterites. (Source: National Geographic)

1. Harvest Party Scandal

The annual harvest puts the Hutterite colony in danger of survival and Claudia, intent on dating a boy who ran away from another colony, does something to shock everyone.

2. The Shunning

It's a day that King Colony will never forget, when the elders from Canada arrive and lay down the law, giving Bertha and Rita the worst punishment a Hutterite can ever receive—shunning.

3. Rockin' Road Trip

Relationships are on the top of everyone's minds at the colony, when Claudia, Clinton, Lisa, and the other young people decide to go to a wedding in Canada to find Wesley a girlfriend.

4. Battle of the Sexes

Claudia stirs things up on the colony when she decides that there's more to life than just cooking and cleaning, and goes against tradition, risking punishment, to work with the men.

5. Shoot to Kill

Carver's anger starts to boil when he goes hunting and can't get a deer, gets into a fight with a boy at school, and ultimately is suspended from school-will Carver be able to control his temper or will he completely go over the edge?

6. ER Bound

Things are turned upside down on the colony when Tammy contemplates dropping out of school, Anna Marie and Bertha stop talking and Wesley is rushed to the emergency room.

7. Show Me the Money!

Claudia sneaks off to the slaughterhouse with some of the girls for a secret sewing session, where they craft nontraditional dresses. Later, she risks serious punishment by wearing one in public. Elsewhere, Marvin struggles to pay the colony bills and enlists the help of Wesley and Clinton.

8. Breaking the Law