In a world where dirty nails are already a crime, where the obligation to keep oneself in excellent physical shape is prescribed by law, where everything is controlled by “medics”, there is a place called the Gap. Particularly guilty “dirty ones” are sent there. This is where Alden Street ended up, a malicious and ill violator of universal hygiene. But he has one important unfinished business that can change this world and its entire way of life. The main thing is to remember what it was and somehow get out of here...