The Adjustment Bureau is a major motion picture based on Philip K. Dick’s classic paranoid story, The Adjustment Team. This is the short story, The Adjustment Group, which asks the query – Perform we control our future, or do unseen pushes manipulate us? Ed Fletcher is certainly a real estate agent with a normal life, until one day he leaves the home for work a few momemts later on than he must have. He finds a terrifying, greyish, ash world. Ed rushes home and tells his wife, Ruth, who goes back to the office with him. If they come back, everything is normal. But he quickly realizes people and objects have subtly changed. Panic-stricken, he runs to a general public telephone to warn the police, only to have the telephone booth ascend heavenward with Fletcher inside…