Plot

A man plans to bomb an auto dealership at night because his aging maternal grandfather was fired by the dealership’s manager to make room for younger, cheaper salesmen. He enlists the aid of one of the salesmen of the dealership. He convinces the salesman to help him. Before the bombing takes place the original planner changes him mind; the risk of harming someone is too great. The salesman, however, continues with a version of the plan. The dealership is destroyed. The salesman, however, is killed in the bombing. From a need for catharsis, the original planner then takes a job as an automobile salesman and is eventually promoted. Some time later, the manager of the destroyed dealership comes to work for him as a now aging salesman. Faced with the opportunity to repay the man for firing his grandfather and for the death of the salesman, the planner has to choose between revenge and his own ethos. He decides to allow the salesman to work out his days at the dealership without prejudice. The salesman, however, discovers the manager’s role in the bombing and has him charged with the crime, upon which he is promoted to the salesman’s place as manager. Hearing another prisoner talk of his father’s poor but honorable little business and the respect he has earned in his community, the planner, awaiting his fate, concludes that there is no justice in the world, no just revenge, and no glory in the dead salesman’s end. Instead, what matters is life lived creating justice in and around oneself, drawing in all that can be made just by it.

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