Um-Helat, a joyous and motley city in the distant future, jubilantly celebrates the Day of Good Birds. In this society, nonconformity is revered, with variance seen in commemorative outfits, professions, or body shape and color. Every citizen is filled with kindness and generosity for their fellow Um-Helatians; they don’t subscribe to our contemporary ideals of tolerance, instead enacting real change to ensure equality between all peoples. To maintain such a perfect society, social worker-like inhabitants obstruct any attempts to access historical information. Um-Helat is a future iteration of the world we know today; its fairness is achieved by concealing the past—our present—and its corrupt and discriminatory nature. However, in an underground crime network, these secrets of the past are gleaned and shared. To curb the spread of evil ideas, the “social worker” citizens kill those involved in information-gleaning. In one such killing, the slain man’s young daughter vows to retaliate against the social workers. Instead of putting down the potentially sinful daughter, the social workers extend a sympathetic hand to her. In closing, the author encourages the reader to similarly fight against oppressive ideals by helping those “infected” by them.