After his wife leaves him, David has 45 days to find a partner at a hotel or become an animal; he escapes, falls for a shortsighted loner, and must decide whether to surrender his sight so they can stay together.
- Scenes 1–15
David moves from his broken home into the hotel, where couplehood is imposed as the norm.
- Scenes 16–24
He must find a partner before the 45-day limit turns him into an animal.
- Scene 25
David loads a tranquilliser gun and joins the hotel’s hunt, entering its violent courtship system.
- Scene 52
Heartless Woman stages a choking fit; David stays still, and she declares they are a match. The double room follows in scene 53.
- Scene 55
Heartless Woman reveals she killed Bob; David’s fabricated partnership turns openly dangerous.
- Just before
- Scene 59
The Maid points Heartless Woman down the corridor; David tranquillises her, and he and the Maid carry her to the transformation room.
- Scene 60
The Maid asks David to tranquillise her too; narration says he turns Heartless Woman into an animal and leaves the hotel.
- Scene 61
The Hotel Manager finds the dead dog and raises the alarm as narration follows David running toward a painful new life.
- Scene 62
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