Tender Is the Flesh

One day several months later, Tejo wakes up and watches a rebroadcast of an old news story about people vandalizing art and statues involving animals after the outbreak of the virus. He greets Jasmine. Over the past few months, he taught her to wear clothes and live in the house. She is eight months pregnant.

After kissing Jasmine goodbye, Tejo locks her in her room, where she can draw, eat, sleep, watch TV, and more. On his way to work, Tejo receives a call from Cecilia, who now calls often. Tejo is afraid to tell her about Jasmine.

Arriving at the plant late, Tejo skips his usual cigarette and goes to the lobby to welcome a delegation from the Church of the Immolation, whose members have a legal option to offer themselves as food, which Krieg facilitates in exchange for tax breaks. Secretly, however, volunteers from the church are fed to the Scavengers. A few months ago, Mari, a secretary at Krieg, loudly interrupted a delegation from the church and tried to stop a young woman from offering herself as food. Later, as Tejo escorted the young woman through the plant on her way to be stunned, she tried to escape, but Sergio managed to stop her.