 In the near future, marshal law imposes a puritanical New Order. Ariel and Zain have been married less than a year, and they re under the gun to produce "a little soldier" for the regime. Zain s gung ho, wearing his military beret during mechanical sex that s limited to her fertile periods. When a quiet, older neighbor is arrested, Ariel explores his flat, finding a room behind a false wall; in it is a contraband VCR and tapes of loving couples who seek and give pleasure. Over the next few months, she visits the room three times, having a revelation each time. When she tries to bring these revelations to her relationship with Zain, it goes badly. In her final revelation, Zain is irrelevant.