.of her own doll baby. In spite of a conversation Carole has with her psychiatrist via the McNeil s bedroom telescreen, she is unable to repress her desire to bear a child, and that evening she fails to utilize her abortion machine.

Christmas is heralded by the sound .of carols emanating from the hovering "Big Mouth Satellite." Russ and Carole celebrate at the Old Vienna Restaurant where, surrounded by plastic food, tubes and simulated merriment, they are robbed of a few fresh vegetables by a desperate crowd.

On their way home, Russ and Carole visit two elderly friends, Mary and Dr.. Herrick (SHEILA REID and DAVID MARKHAM), in the Happiness Home. But they find there is little real happiness among the elderly people who are waiting to die. Outside in the street they arrive at the Place of Public Execution just in time to see the Transgressors bubble lowered over a young couple and a forbidden infant. They were turned in by a woman seeking the promised extra rations reward.

Hurt and disappointed, Carole asks Russ for a Christmas tree. When Russ returns with a forbidden live tree, she confesses that she is pregnant. They concoct a plan for survival. Carole, having pretended to leave Russ, will spend her pregnancy in an abandoned atomic bomb shelter beneath the house and bear the child there. Russ will continue to live in the house and allay the suspicions of the Bordens.

Baby Jessie is born and Carole returns to Russ, using an artificial doll baby to fool the Bordens. But Edna is not easily fooled When the child becomes ill and Carole attempts to smuggle him to Dr. Herrick, Edna follows them. With her suspicions confirmed, Edna and George blackmail the McNeils into sharing the child. Daily tensions grow until George insists he and Edna will assume full possession of Jessie. . ..

Russ and Carole decide to make a secret break for the outside world.

They tunnel from their bomb shelter to the sewer beneath the nearest Public Execution Point where they hide a boat and supplies.

Edna, hysterical at their refusal to turn over the baby, informs on the McNeils. Carole, Russ and baby Jessie are branded Transgressors and enclosed in the execution dome. At night Russ" digs down to their tunnel.

The desperate couple eventually reach the open sea and a deserted stricken island where they hope to build a life away from the society they did not create.



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