Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .