Set in 2017, a TV news-magazine host looks back at the major changes in America and the rest of 153 allied nations after the implementation of the 40 Point Plan five years earlier. Throughout the movie, various (future) newscasters "read into reality" stories that reveal an alternative world enjoying the effects of plan. While set in the future, attention to real names makes the plan look entirely possible.

To avoid galactic war, the treatment of a frozen planet and its people must be decided.