The planet is divided into three superpowers. Although frontiers are rife with incessant wars, the world is balanced. One of the three nations, Oceania, is ruled by a single Party. It thoroughly controls the actions and minds of its inhabitants. Winston is a party member working in the Records Department, forging and discarding pieces of history. In this way the Party controls the sole channel to history. It sees all and hears all through telescreens located in every home. It invents a new language Newspeak, designed to limit the scope of thought. There is no law in Oceania. The governing body thus has boundless authority. In a world where no opposition goes unnoticed, Winston questions the status quo. He dangerously wonders why things have to be this way. Having lived through the days before the Party existed, he develops a sense of obligation. As though a particle obligated to bridge the thread of the past to the thread of the future so that history flows in continuum. There is another particle, not driven by intergenerational liability, but by the pure pursuit of personal satisfaction. Julia enters his life. Although for a different cause, they find common ground. They love each other. They eventually get caught. Through torture and brainwashing, Winston finally relinquishes autonomy of thought. To the Party, power is not a means but an end. Pure demonstration of power destroyed the living agent of history, turning it mechanically lifeless. It failed to bridge history to the future. The particle is lifted from the axis, only to be reactive to waves of the Party. Winston dies.