Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invissible man' retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identityin a white society:as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. In doing so, he explains how he came to beiving underground....