In an overcrowded city of the future, Charlie—a young man full of good intentions—works for a company called Recycle & Ternel, whose slogan is “Recycling for bodies.” Charlie’s job is to answer calls from people asking how their deceased relatives can be “repurposed.” One day, he gets a call from a boy who wants to know what has happened to his mother’s soul. Not knowing the answer, Charlie looks it up and discovers that dead people’s souls are reinstalled in their bodies before they are transformed into something perfectly new.
