Pamela Pankhurst is a beleaguered creative writing professor at Sanford Liberal Arts College (SLAC, home of the Slackers) when the pandemic hits, her campus shuts down, and a passive-aggressive new administration with draconian policies takes over. As her coworkers lose their will to live and the institution careens toward catastrophe, Pamela bands with two colleagues to investigate: who are these administrators who make nonsensical demands and seem to harbor vendettas against everyone? Pamela and her intrepid workmates risk their careers and their sanity as they seek to rescue their campus from dehumanization and certain ruin.