 A seemingly benign TV interviewer asks people in the street (and under the street), "What s your opinion about the actual political situation?" Several people fumble, one won t talk, and an older man who sits in an easy chair says, "Make love." A government representative pushes aside the announcer and asks the man in the street to elaborate. Soon "love" appears everywhere; then it s replaced by "buy," which gives way to "pro patria" and war: the power of good ideas, as government appropriates them for their own uses. But what s in store for our old man? Can he continue to think, speak his mind, and stay out of trouble with the authorities?