This is a thinly-disguised autobiography (slightly fictionalized), about growing up in a lower-class, Bronx, Italian/Jewish family during the Great Depression. Gene Geminni becomes an atheist by the age of 15 and expends a great deal of his energy promoting that viewpoint as he evolves from his first full-time job as an elevator operator in the Garment District of New York City to a college professor and Clinical psychologist. Along the way, like Don Quixote before him, he encounters a few windmills.