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Sex is encouraged but the penalty for birth... ...is death
The time is tomorrow and there's no time left: Smog covers the Earth. The oxygen is depleted. Love is encouraged, but the penalty for birth is death. World governments have placed a thirty-year ban on conception, in an effort to achieve Zero Population Growth (Z.P.G.) and save what's left of life on Earth. It's a world of plastic food and simulated fun... with a museum to contain the last living remnants of Earth's natural flora and fauna. The curators of that museum are a young couple who represent the last living link with with the humanity of today... the last vestige of individuality in a sterile, bland future. They defy the anti-conception edict, and produce a child which they are forced to hide... and save from extermination.