In the summer of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading, and a mall bookstore clerk is found dead in a washroom, a blue facemask stuffed into his mouth. That's only the beginning of problems for mall manager Michael McQueen. Public Health advocates want more pandemic safety measures while anti-maskers protest, and someone is threatening an acid attack in the mall. At home, his social-climbing wife insists he do whatever it takes to advance his career, and he recalls his late father telling him he must do the right thing, even if he suffers from it. But what is the right thing to do?