Hinako lives at her father's poultry farm when Yamagishi appears, rubbing his swollen belly and saying that a child will be born. As the bantams grow restless, Hinako, who was raised in a cage for chicks, becomes gripped by anxiety as the boundary between the chickens' violence and herself begins to waver.

A man who appears at a poultry farm and the increasingly restless bantams unsettle Hinako's world.