A young guy gets hired in a company where there is zero tolerance for empathy towards others. Meanwhile, a hard-working father saves his money in order to cure his six-year-old son of cancer, but instead gets scammed and loses all his money. Desperate, he tries to get his money back, as well as to get revenge on those who swindled him out of all his money... all without realizing that he is digging himself into an even deeper hole...

The book tackles philosophical questions such as: What is considered normal and what is not? Where should we draw the line between being a normal person and a person who thinks he/she is normal but in reality needs help? The book also showcases the spectrum of morality and criticizes various problems with American society.