When famous actor Will Smith assaults other famous actor Chris Rock during the Academy Award ceremony, the world can only recoil in shock and horror. The developments of such an action are impossible to foresee, and as a wave of violence sweeps first across Hollywood and then the entire country, An anonymous Hollywood insider journals his reactions and his efforts to survive as the very fabric of society is challenged. Armed only with his mind, an average amount of cocaine for a Hollywood executive and his diary, he will try to keep his life and his humanity in a world where people get slapped.