2020: the Great Genetic Upheaval; all life, humans too,starts rapidly evolving. Bon viveur fiction writer Howard Hubris and his increasingly voluptuous wife Helga escape with vast undeclared wealth to a new palace on the rim of an extinct volcano in the unspoilt jungles of Faunama to write 12 articles on luxury for Lust for Life mag, but wildly evolving fate is out to humiliate and destroy him.