A man is lying next to his team recruit, in the middle of a dry veldt. They discuss the morality and motives of their job for a while, which is to visit mortal people all over the world who still have not adopted the way of 'longlife.' Their mission is to introduce these people to eternal life and keep them from dying out. Despite being physically dedicated enough to their jobs to be out in the hot, dry midday grassland hunting down a tribe, these two men seem to be morally conflicted and with many doubts about the reasons behind their work. They have short, strained conversations, in which neither of them are ever truly honest. Eventually, the two men catch up to the tribe they are trying to talk to, a small and primitive group of about 100 people. They sit in silence together with them for a while, around a fire, until the chief finally opens his mouth to ask why the men have been following his tribe. The man and his team recruit have a long conversation with him, during which they are frustrated with his ignorance. When they see that talking to the tribe will not work, they give up and allow them to be taken by force by the “catchers.” The catchers are going to take them to a center, where they are to be washed, dressed, and fed, brought up to nutritional norms that would alter their mental performance, and educated. The chief manages to escape and attempts to murder the man with a knife but ultimately fails and is also taken to the center at the end. Fifty years later, the man reunites with the chief, who has become an entirely different person.