In the not to distant future it is decreed that all men be shrunk in order to save the the earth from dying because of overpopulation. After a century of this people are used to it and believe men to be insignificant and inferior beings. All men have until 15 to find a "protector" (girl that will be their owner) and then they are shrunk. Sometimes it's easy, other times a guy has immense difficulty finding a protectress that cares for him. Enter Allan Scoff...a man that is too smart for his own good and rapidly approaching his 15th year...