Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Billy lives a normal life, he has a wife and kids. He battled in WW2, and now is an optomitrist in New York. Before being taken Billy experiences his first time shifting, he sees his whole life flash before his eyes. After being captured and suffering a breakdown Billy gets shot up with morphine where he experiences more time shifting. Billy is transported to the bombing of Dresden, where he and fellow American soldiers live by locking themselves in a meat cooler. After returning to America and getting married he submits himself to a veterans hospital because he has a nervous breakdown. Another patient shows him books written by Kilgore Trout, an eccentric science-fiction writer. Billy goes through his life having many shiftings. The night of his daughters wedding he is kidnapped by two foot high aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who look like toilet plungers. The Tralfamadorians take him to their planet and put him on display naked with a movie actress from earth named Montana Wildhack. The Tralfamadoreians can see in four dimensions. When Billy returns to Earth he is seen as crazy and senile by his friends and family. Billy makes a tape recording of his account of his death, which he predicts will occur in 1976 after Chicago has been hydrogen-bombed by the Chinese. He knows exactly how it will happen, a vengeful man he knew in the war will hire someone to shoot him, and there’s nothing he can do to stop it. Poo-tee-weet?
