Picture if you can a universe of rockets and explosions, of war and death. Now picture the man who made it all possible, his face contorted by the exertions of the elliptical trainer. Shattered bodies of little children lying under the blazing sun, and he makes one of the most difficult descisions an executive can face. To give up sweets or not?

Shuffling through this universe, the players on this stage are unaware of the outcome of the drama where they play their unwilling part. As they move from each sunrise to each sunset, they know only that they are glad that their leader has chosen to give up sweets. How much more awful it would have been for them in their universe for him to have given up cocaine now.