An epidemic of 'brain fever' attacks the young people in a small town. Then the local infrastructure begins to crumble as the town's long-established building society goes into liquidation and both the education and health authorities are bankrupt. Then suddenly finance miraculously appears for an immunization program and for IQ testing of all school pupils. As the media is manipulated and the Internet disintegrates, it is IQ testing that dominates the lives of parents, children, and teachers in the area.