A guilt ridden atomic scientist takes on a life as a hardware store owner near a town that was decimated as part of the early work in atomic bombs. When a couple of strangers buy the entire town and it starts rebuilding itself, suspicion is raised in the minds of the protagonist and his close friend (but nobody else seems to notice or care that invisible bulldozers and jack hammers are reconstructing the deserted town site.)

An uncertain and unconvincing ending.