Having been in boarding schools where people with intellectual disabilities are sentenced to lifelong confinement, the main character experiences such horror that he decides, together with his beloved, to establish the International of Fools for their protection under the slogan “Oligophrenics of all countries, unite!” While organizing this International, the lovers travel across Europe and discover that such an International has existed for a long time and rules the world. It is aimed not only against geniuses, but against all normal people. Only imaginative people like the main hero—someone willing to transform a dream into reality—can resist the fools.