Two vacuous French newlyweds, Claudine (Anemone) and Jean-Michel (André Dussolier), volunteer for a research project sponsored by the Ministry of the Future. They are to dwell in a “happiness capsule” for six months, their every craving and caress monitored, evaluated, then quantified. In the nearby lab, white-coated researchers surveil their subjects 24/7, informing them that they have slipped from 77 to 44 percent on the scale of normality. Eventually, the “model couple” becomes part of a media spectacle as they relinquish every impulse for the greater good so that science can “reconcile man and the city.” Klein's futuro-consumer farce takes the industrial definition of desire to task, railing against the metrics of yearning. When the dulled duo tire of being sanitized and inspected, they unearth a new impulse, to monkey-wrench the metering of their lives. Registering 35 percent on the smugness scale and 8.6 on the prophetic spectrum, Klein's arch appraisal of social engineering has been well received by 9 out of 10 viewers.