From the author note: "Content warnings: childhood sexual assault (off page, some details discussed), childhood physical abuse (corporal punishment, off page, described), childhood physical abuse (confinement punishment), childhood neglect, gaslighting, grooming, suicide (off page, mention), killing of a goat (off page, described), discussions of fatphobia, body horror/gore, violence, death." One of the protagonists is groomed into a relationship while she is a teenager, with a man in his early twenties. This man later denies that he was ever with her. There are several flashbacks to scenes where he choked her while raping her. We find out that the protagonist's mother was raped by her sister's husband, and the sister does not believe her. Many other children in the town where they live also were preyed upon by this man.