&quot;The Landlords&quot; is a brief but imaginative story exploring the relations between the modern human race and a group of aliens called <i>The Landlords</i> who reveal to us that we have only been allowed to exist on planet Earth based on an ancient contract with them, a contract which recently expired and warrants our eviction from Earth.<br />The story explores the various interactions that the human race has with these extraterrestrial beings in a bid to reach a resolution before we are forcefully evicted from the planet.<br />The aliens start to reveal to us various events in our human development and history, much of which had remained a mystery to us over time, and how these events relate directly or indirectly with them, and the contract to which both our species are bound.<br />The greatest of the world&#39;s leaders are pressed to find solutions while the aliens plot ways to rid the planet of us, gently or forcibly.