Man is Man's worst enemy." The world enters a new Age of Enlightenment, an Age of the Antisocial. The people of the world realize that they must get away from each other, and as quickly as possible, or everyone should perish. This is the story of the Antisocial movement, in which conversation is obsolete, and interaction of any sort is outdated. And when Congressman Samuel Hastings wakes up in this world, he has no idea what had happened. He finds the first of many Americans to be quarantined.