Equality 7-2521 is a man who yearns to understand “the Technology of Things,” but he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent idea is a crime and where research and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have already been suppressed in his world: personal possessions are nonexistent, individual choices are condemned as sinful, and intimate love can be forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” continues to be erased. In pursuit of his search for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to solution the queries that burn within him.