Laguna Beach, California. A down-and-out poet suffering apocalyptic visions sets out to rescue an enterprising but naive young heiress from a scheme engineered by her domineering mother, a renowned social theoretician, who conspires with the Powers-that-be to rest control of the family fortune to fulfill her lifelong dream of remaking society into a matriarchy which worships Mother Nature. George Orwell"s "Animal Farm" and Dante"s "Inferno" are primer for what living is like Under the Green Dome.