: The story forces readers to confront the ethics of modern industrial farming by placing humans in the position of the animals we consume.
: The explicit depiction of human "dismantling" serves to ensure the reader cannot distance themselves from the reality of the characters' situation.
: Within the facility, humans are subjected to "fattening fields," where they are drugged, stripped of their ego, and prepared for consumption by monstrous, insect-like creatures.
The central premise follows I’e and his friend Kazu after they are gassed on a bus and wake up in a facility where humans are farmed and processed like cattle.