"Bailey, the buffoonish hero of The Ink Truck, is a former columnist for, and now full time striker against, a newspaper in a medium sized American city strongly resembling Albany, New York. An inspired rhetorician but a clumsy tactician, he now commands a ragtag remnant of but four strikers. His schemes against the company--including an attempt to bleed the newspaper's ink dry and an act of arson against a group of gypsy thugs--inevitably backfires, spiraling him and his dwindling band into ever wilder and more surreal misadventures."