- Millionaire Paul Radin tries to convince three people who wronged him in the past to apologize to him by offering them shelter from a staged and phony nuclear war scenario.
- Successful multi-millionaire Paul Radin invites three people from his past to join him in the underground bunker he's built deep beneath his commercial office building. All three have had a major influence on his life, though not the kind that made him a success. His former military commander had him court-martialed; his former teacher ridiculed and humiliated him in class after she caught him cheating; his church minister ruined his reputation after he drove a girl to suicide. All he requires of them is one thing: a brief apology. The impact of what they've done to him is far greater than it appears.—garykmcd / edited by Hans Delbruck
- In New York, the wealthy businessman Paul Radin builds an underground bunker in his building, with a powerful sound system. Then he invites Colonel Hawthorne, Mrs. Langsford and Reverend Hughes to meet him in the place. In common, all the three persons have harmed him somehow along his life, and now he wants their apology requests. He lies to them about what is happening outside his bunker, and soon he learns that his lie may be reality. Or not?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Radin invites three people to the bomb shelter that he has built. One is a high school teacher (Mrs. Langford), who failed him; the second is Colonel Hawthorne, who had him court-martialed; and the third is Rev. Hughes, who made a public scandal out of a woman who committed suicide over him. Radin (with the aid of sound effects and fake radio messages) convinces the trio that an apocalyptic nuclear war will occur in just moments. He offers them refuge in the shelter if they do one thing: apologize for their actions. All refuse, valuing honor above life, and exit. Suddenly, the sound of a bomb detonation shakes Radin's shelter. He takes the elevator to the surface and sees that a nuclear war really has occurred, and the world is in ruins. This twist ending is given another twist, however, when we learn that Radin, devastated by his hoax's failure, has lost his mind and is only imagining that the world has ended.
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