The period is 2022, and blockage has led to fare and water shortages, large city overcrowd, pollution, and environmental collapse. The puzzle starts when the rich and strong Simonson (Joseph Cotten) is killed in welcome upper-class, apartment complex. A incomplete police police officer, Thorn (the always-complicating Charlton Heston), catches the case, and in 'tween opportunistically looting the atrocity setting of rare expensive goods, he quickly discerns that Simonson's afterlife looks doubtful: a planned murder produced to look like a trespass disappeared wrong. With the aid of welcome aged researcher companion Sol (Edward G. Robinson), Thorn pursues the case regardless of the protestations of welcome boss, only to uncover a outrageous treason about welcome failing world.