The instances of sexual violence in this book are heavily detailed. The protagonist, who is entering the 6th grade at the start of the book, is groomed and sexually assaulted by a teacher. In one instance, he reaches under her clothing under the guise of correcting her posture. In another, he coerces her into changing her menstrual pad in front of him. In yet another, he tricks her into going to his home alone and forces her to perform oral sex on him. After this instance, he tells her not to tell anyone because he will get into trouble, but she will get into more trouble. When the protagonist tries to tell her mother what happened, between the second and third instances of assault, her mother does not believe her. Her mother says the protagonist has a filthy mind and then beats her. The protagonist is in love with her first cousin. They decide to "get married" in a childlike, pretend way. Later, the protagonist asks him to have sex with her, specifically because she feels her body doesn't belong to her after her assault, and she believes the teacher will eventually kill her. They sneak off together and have sex in a very detailed scene. While in a heavily dissociated state, the protagonist sneaks into the teacher's house and stabs him to death. The press labels him as a beloved and intelligent person whom everyone loved. When the protagonist is an adult, tries to tell friends what he did to her, and they misunderstand her or say that she was lucky to have a grown man interested in her when she was in elementary school. The protagonist ends up marrying a man with the agreement that they will not have sex or even any touching. He was traumatized by the fact that his mother would take baths with him into his teenage years. He later decides to try to abandon humanity having incest with a member of his family. At first, he considers his grandfather, who is in a coma in a hospital. When the protagonist tells him that's wrong, he apologizes and later decides to invite his brother into incest. The brother reacts negatively to this invitation. When the protagonist's and her husband's families and friends find out that they haven't been having sex, they tell her how abnormal they find that and try to get her to have sex with him. Towards the end of the book, the protagonist, her husband, and the cousin she had sex with as a child all move into a house together where they believe they are aliens, walk about the house naked, and steal food from other houses to survive. The book ends with all 3 of them somehow becoming pregnant.