Albert Garypie was a good little boy and as a young man he was the perfect soldier in the Army who always followed orders. Thus he was the ideal candidate for Army Intelligence mind controls drug tests. After the experiment Albert fails to come out of his zombie like trance leaving him completely without self-motivation outside his ability to chain smoke cigarettes of his own volition. Albert languishes in this condition some fifty-five years in a VA hospital until one day, seemingly for no reason, he finally comes out of his trance and seems normal. Only the better portion of Albert's life has already passed him by. Albert has to start his adult life as a 72 year old man.