On a Venusian outpost, cut off from their Earthen ancestors, a society sacrifices its humanity in exchange for security. Edwin Lackey watches the surveillance monitors keeping his world safe. His staff of overseers control the population with unyielding law. If a citizen breaks the strict code of conduct, the enforcers haul them in for reconditioning. Has this future colony gone too far to control its inhabitants? What price will they pay for their overzealous authority?