Chris Ulrich has a gambling problem in that he has run up too much debt to keep gambling. After being turned over to the Yuthar Syndicate, a group of glorified interplanetary loan sharks, Chris is presented with several options to pay off his debt. Faced with the prospect of working a minimum wage job for two decades, he opts for the Yuthar's "Better Than a Memory" program. Chris reports to his new job to find it a lot more pleasurable than he expected.