An examination of the human price of economic colonialism. In three monologues delivered by a rapacious baby-formula marketer and his regretful wife, Baitz equates the disintegration of their marriage with the death toll exacted by the businessman's work: he employed saleswomen disguised as nurses to persuade third-world mothers to abandon breast feeding. As a result they poisoned their babies by diluting the expensive formula with lethal tap water.