This story features a woman coping with the memories of an extremely, violently abusive relationship. It is never explicitly stated what age she is when the relationship begins but it may have been her mid to late teens after she was unsuccessful at becoming a sex worker. The focus of the protagonist's memories are the non-sexual violence of the relationship. Their sexual relationship is never really mentioned. A few chapters are spent with some secondary characters, one of whom is an adult man, 30+, who is married to a teenager. They are never seen together in the story. There is a brief passage explaining one of the methods sex workers use to prevent clients from interacting with them in non-consentual ways which describes some hypothetical non-consentual acts.