Jessica endures a workaday existence as copy editor at Tyranny World , the official magazine of the totalitarian robot regime that has ruled the Earth since before she was born. She's bored and depressed. Life is an endless slog. Nothing ever changes. Until . one dreary October day, the Leader summons Jessica to the Control Room for interrogation. Over the next two months, while the rest of the city gears up for the 50th Anniversary of the Robot Landing, Jessica and the Leader become embroiled in their own emotional drama.