Ms. Freedman's high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest socio-political problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, ""a feral child with excessive eyeliner and an anti-authoritarian complex"" and Cody Splunk, an aspiring writer working on a time machine. Following a nervous breakdown, Ms. Freedman corresponds with Janice and Cody from an insane asylum run on the capitalist model of cognitive behavioural therapy.