One evening George Lenard Birkby, a minor clerk in the State publishing department, is arrested for not carrying a Pass Book and for exercising his dog without the restraint of a leash. He is physically abused and subsequently loses his job. It is illegal to be unemployed. Lenard is contacted by a revolutionary group. He has sex with and falls in love with a girl. As part of his initiation into the revolutionary cell, Lenard is ordered to kill his boss, a secret Christian and a homosexual.Arrested for murder, Lenard is selected for Personality Reorientation.........