The chronicle of a cuckolded wage-slave and his Sisyphean struggle with his tyrannical boss, his impressionable daughter, his wife and her lover, a police manhunt for a killer, the local baseball team's mascot, and himself.

Accused of assaulting a young woman at a party, a video distributor specializing in old exploitation movies becomes the prime suspect when the woman is murdered that same night by a black-gloved and knife-wielding killer.

In the not-too-distant future ®, a young woman uses a computer program called Fruitful to manipulate a digital avatar of her husband.