One of Dick's great classics that designs the scenario of a fabricated reality - long before films like "The Truman Show" or "The Matrix." A small town like any other, somewhere in America in the late fifties. Ragle Gumm, forty-six years old, single, has been making a living for years by entering contests in the local newspaper. As a perpetual winner and national champion in the competition "Where will the little green man appear next?" he is a minor celebrity. Until strange discoveries convince him that something is not right. Not with the people, not with the cars, the houses, the town. And not with time.