The Jeffers Corporation is a world success, endorsed by the U.S.
President, pitching productivity and happy talk. George is a third
level employee, supervising three or four others. Around the world,
people are exploding as the stress of denying feelings takes its toll.
The Jeffers' response: mind control. George and his wife are miserable:
he's impotent with occasional fits of infantile pique. She's reading a
book on happiness, trying everything. His brother, released from
prison, starts of freedom-of-expression movement in George's backyard.
Plus there's Charisma, a woman from Level Four who sends him paperwork
- with smiley faces. Can George connect?