I played this a while ago and don't quite remember the details, but I remember being frustrated about how stupid one of the sides was.
It's a post apocalyptic setting with various unruly warlords and violent bands roaming the world, vying for resources. You have a deal with a local leader (whose land seems quite stable in comparison to the rest of the world), that in exchange for your help bringing his kids to him, he'll send the rangers (your people) supplies to help them out. Then you're contacted by a rogue ranger who wants you to help them bring that leader down in a rebellion instead. As such, she directs you to his secret prison so that you witness how wicked he is. In the prison you find a former leader of a band of some cannibal raiders, who claims that many years ago this local leader paid them off so that they fuck off and direct their raids away from his lands. That's it. And that's why he's evil and needs to be overthrown apparently.
Maybe I'm misremembering something, because it sounds utterly retarded, but I recall thinking it was utterly retarded even back when I was playing.