Four teenage boys escape the Brooklyn summertime heat at their local swimming pool. After their swim, the boys are ravenous, and they imagine all the foods they'd like to eat.

When a group of refugee cyborgs pose as a band of human restauranteurs to attain intergalactic freedom, one of them questions her allegiances.

An irate customer at a fast food joint slashes an employee's car tires and wrecks the engine. Years later, homeless and fresh out of prison, the employee encounters the same man and swears he'll get revenge.

After an aging Indian court justice moves to America to live with his daughter in modern-day Boston, he accidentally eats beef in a burrito and attempts to file a lawsuit.

Workers at an American franchise restaurant located in southern China learn of the different ways American capitalism exploits them and creates food waste, leading them to rebel against their bosses.

A group of journalists are invited to a New Zealand farm to view genetically engineered creatures designed to end world hunger. But when the creatures appear to speak and be sentient, the company scrambles to convince the journalists they were mistaken.

The characters in violent commercials realize they can resist their dark fates, and they rise up against the consumer establishment.

In the dystopian American south, an Indian boat captain and other humanitarians attempt to overthrow a capitalist food monopoly by seeking a man who can make calories, all while being tracked by murderous IP men working for an agricultural company.

When a middle-aged lawyer in contemporary Indiana discovers that he has a powerfully sensitive palate, he suddenly finds himself with riches, fame, and a mid-life crisis.

In modern-day Texas, a teenage boy navigates a world in which teens can take out virtual loans on a whim, big corporations sponsor everything from housing to church services, and consumerism runs rampant. As high school graduation approaches, he grows apart from his girlfriend and family — and becomes increasingly attached to an unsponsored, unbranded, humble little church.