Chorkie Walker is a miniature teddy bear, abandoned and forgotten amongst the books and decorations of a former bookshop. Exposed to the morning sun every day Chorkie reads through the entire storeroom and, by a miracle of science, becomes animated. Not unlike Nietsche's Zarathustra, Chorkie goes out into the world to tell the people that humankind gets more stupid by the day and its only hope for survival is to evolve, not into 'supermen', but into 'balanced beings'.