Henry Hunt is a man with three obsessions-cleanliness, shopping and plants. To the world he is regarded as a highly intelligent, calm and collected botanist- a humanitarian, intent on engineering a hardy and nutritious plant that can end world hunger.

But there is also a dark side.	Hunt enjoys studying plants because of their quiet peaceful nature, a nature he wishes he could claim as his own.

	Unfortunately Henry Hunt's serious and calm facade is often shattered as he becomes easily agitated and stressed.

	He also suffers from a condition called oniomania, the irresistible urge to buy things, and thus spends a great deal of time in shopping malls. Such obsessive shopping has often been the poor botanist's downfall distracting him from his experiments and from keeping an eye