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President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio- but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground- but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks- and the fanatical Last Days sect is recruiting thousands ...When at last the sun breaks through the clouds Lottie heads off to the opera- husband Harold listens to jazz and their ditsy teenage daughter Lola fights capitalism by bunking off school. Shirley takes her twin boys to the zoo. The Government - eager to detract attention from a foreign war it has waged - announces a spectacular City Gala. But not even TV astrologer Davey Lucas can predict the extraordinary climax that ensues....