Anna lost her sense of taste to a fever, which should have been a private difficulty. Instead it became a tool. Chloe, her fiancé Ethan's chosen companion, discovers that Anna cannot taste what she's served and turns every meal into an experiment in cruelty—each one framed, in front of Ethan, as therapeutic. Ethan films and laughs on Anna's birthday while Chloe serves her something deliberately disgusting and calls it help.
After one final incident—a drinking game dressed up as a treatment—Anna is gone before the sun comes up. Ethan expects her to come back. She always has before. What arrives instead is a medical report detailing permanent damage to something the two of them spent months treating as a punchline, and Anna is nowhere to be found.
