“True happiness comes only by making others happy”, this famous reflection has surely been taken too seriously by the authorities who officiate in Wellington Wells, a small town in South West England. In this dystopia sprinkled with handfuls of uchronia, where Germany has long invaded in the 1930s, the inhabitants have invented a drug putting the population in a state of intense happiness. Those who do not take their dose are treated as weeds. The question now is whether it is sometimes better not to avoid facing reality.