<b>Everybody and their neighbor&#39;s dog thinks they can handle the truth.</b><br /><b>But the truth is, they can&#39;t.</b><br /><br />Three years ago, Madame Polonaise&#39;s Palm Reading Salon went by a different name: the Scientific Palm Studies Institute.<br />Decorated more like a dentist&#39;s office than a fortunetelling shop, the Institute suffered from misbranding. Only when Madame Polonaise gave up much of her self-respect (and abandoned words like &quot;objective,&quot; &quot;logical,&quot; and &quot;scientific&quot;) did she manage to revive the business. The keywords she uses nowadays include &quot;mystical,&quot; &quot;esoteric,&quot; and &quot;cryptic&quot;--perfectly in line with her clients&#39; truly false (or falsely true?) expectations.<br />But one evening, a man with a palm that is most alien to her wants a reading. And when Madame Polonaise sees him for what he is, she cannot look away from the truth anymore...