How do you stay alive when nothing you do makes any difference?Michael Gereon lives with his estranged wife Peggy in a decayed house in the East End of London. The same house in which his mother was battered to death in a drug-deal gone wrong when he was sixteen.A psychiatrist thinks Michael has delusions inherited from his mother.Michael thinks every one else is deluded, since they don’t realise they are puppets subject to random forces beyond their control.