When Agustina Bazterrica won the prestigious Clarín literary competition with her chilling dystopia in 2017, she surely had no idea that the plot of her book would soon partially become reality, and her novel would thus gain topicality and urgency.

The world is irrevocably changed when a deadly virus is discovered carried by animals: from wild animals to pets, all must be euthanized and their flesh no longer eaten. Governments face the situation in a drastic way: they legalize the breeding, slaughter and consumption of humans. Cannibalism becomes part of everyday reality and society is divided into two groups: those who eat meat and those whose meat is consumed.

Marcos Tej, operations manager at Krieg Freezers, has been left by his wife after the death of his young son, and he lives only by a job he hates and continues to do only to pay for his father, who suffers from senile dementia, to stay in a luxury geriatric center.

On the day he receives a gift of a young woman, a "female" intended for breeding for meat, his mind sets off on a dangerous journey that leads him through dark turns to a situation that is hard to imagine even for members of a society as perverted as the one in which he is forced to live.

Can we even talk about any humanity when the dead have to be cremated to avoid being eaten?

How long is the other, if we are what we eat?