Meanwhile, life goes on in a strange apartment house over a delicatessen. Offbeat is putting it mildly. The time is the future, perhaps ten years after it all went bad. The sky is thick yellow fog. Humans have two legs and frogs have four, but the only other animals left alive have six or eight.
Legal tender is bags of lentils or corn.
And something else has disappeared with the world we knew. What is missing is something like sanity. With so few animals around, society has been broken into two classes, vegetarians and those who have taken to heart the adage that one man's meat is another man's person, so to speak. The setting is an apartment house standing over one of the few remaining delicatessens. And only rarely does the delicatessen have meat.