The sudden appearance of a deadly virus that affects animals irreversibly changes the world: from wild animals to pets, everything must be systematically killed, and their meat cannot be consumed. Governments face the situation with a drastic decision: they legalize the breeding, reproduction, slaughter, and processing of human meat. Cannibalism becomes law, and society is divided into two groups: those who eat and those who are eaten. Markos Texo, the general manager of the Krig meat processing unit, is a mysterious bureaucrat. On the day he receives a breeding woman as a gift for consumption, temptation dangerously transforms him, pushing him to break the laws and walk on the razor's edge. In this relentless dystopia - brutal as well as penetrating, allegorical as well as realistic - Basterrika inspires highly topical public discussions with her explosive fictional power.