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The story unfolds with the introduction of Arlington Stewart, an enigmatic NASA employee who, after being struck by lightning, exhibits remarkable healing powers and begins crafting bizarre devices. The plot kicks off in Virginia, where a struggling family, Arthur and Norma Lewis, receive a mysterious box with a button and a strange proposition attached to it. The tension heightens with the promise of wealth alongside the sinister implication of death that the button entails.