In three separate, amateurish stories set in an indeterminate future when television rules the roost and humans are increasingly robot-like, the focus is on the first-prize winners in a TV contest. The first winner is a professor who lectures on mythology via closed-circuit television from his apartment. Worried about his ratings, he goes for consultation and consolation to an attractive female friend. But after a lecture on centaurs, tragedy strikes, and the young professor never learns he is a winner after all. In the next story, the winner is a loner who hates the robotic society and falls in love with a woman he only knows by her voice. In the last story, the winner turns out to be a canine, who couldn't care less about his good luck -- or even understand it.