After being accused by Senator McCarthy of having communist sympathies, Jack S. Slater, a talented engineer with tenure at MIT was forced to flee from this narrow-minded environment. While scanning the planet for a place of refugee, his gifted mind was brewing on a plan of revenge. After applying the most modern statistical methods in his quest of finding the most progressive place on earth, he laid his eyes on the city of Aalst, Belgium, the ideal site for preparing his plan: destroying Joseph McCarthy and the like.