Tender Is the Flesh

Working at the local processing plant,Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humansΓÇöthough no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left himhis father is sinking into dementiaand Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After allit happened so quickly. Firstit was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the ΓÇ£Transition.ΓÇ¥ Noweating human meatΓÇöΓÇ£special meatΓÇ¥ΓÇöis legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbersconsignmentsprocessing. Then one day heΓÇÖs given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though heΓÇÖs aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of deathlittle by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soonhe becomes tortured by what has been lostΓÇöand what might still be saved.