This is a book about coming to grips with work life. After suffering burnout in her career, the unnamed narrator is placed into 5 different jobs - watching surveillance footage, writing audio ads for a bus service, writing bon mots for the back of rice cracker packets, hanging up posters, and inhabiting a hut in the midst of a national forest. The heroine struggles with being detached from these jobs, but eventually is sucked into some emotional vortex hidden in the work. A playful thread of possible magical realism lurks under the surface.