A man and his coworkers are laid off from their jobs. In his conference room, his supervisor shares the news, but all of his coworkers are relieved and crack open bottles to celebrate. Everyone then packs up their desks and leaves, including the man. On his way out, the man stumbles upon his supervisor again, and they talk about what they’ll do henceforth. The supervisor says he’ll do whatever he wants, but the man is unsure. They then part ways, and the man takes an autonomous car home.

At home, the man sees his husband tending to their greenhouse. Ever since the husband was laid off a month ago, he has been committed to gardening. In the greenhouse, the husband and their daughter are marveling at the pea plants, and the man breaks the news about his release. His husband asks him what he’ll do now, and he gives the same answer as before.

The next day, the man wakes up without an alarm. He recalls how the existing welfare program has made it so that everyone has their basic needs met without having to work, all thanks to the productivity of machines and artificial intelligence. His next days are just as uneventful—a week later, his supervisor pays him a visit for lunch. They talk about how their lives have gone since their release, to which they both say nothing much has happened. After his supervisor leaves, the man recalls his job and how, although he didn’t like working very much, he at least liked the satisfaction of contributing to his and his family’s good life.

Day by day, the man tries to pick up new hobbies. He tries golf but finds that he is neither good nor interested in it. Meanwhile, his husband is making the greenhouse bigger and bigger. He tries to convince him to pick up gardening too, and the man responds back with a jealous remark that he immediately regrets. His husband tells him to leave the greenhouse, and the man relents even further by squishing a tomato.

The next day, the man walks to a nearby pond. He sees a dead trout and feels a sense of responsibility to remove it, which motivates him greatly. However, as he wades into the pond to remove it, a robot beats him to the chase and grinds up the trout into fertilizer. Now angry, the man realizes that machines have been the problem all along and beats the robot to a pulp with his shoe. He then walks down the nearby road by himself, rather than taking an autonomous car, and happens upon an abandoned mall. There, he sees a bunch of edgy youth hanging out, who all ask him what he’s doing. He tells them that he’s rebelling.

Further down the road, the man decides to go to a cement building where all the computer servers are held. He sneaks inside through an autonomous gate, peruses through rooms full of infrastructure, and smacks one rack of computer servers with his shoe. Soon enough, an alarm rings, police officers surround the compound, and the man turns himself in. At the police station, the man encounters the supervisor again, who is being held for demolishing a few autonomous cars. The man is then released without any charges, however, as he caused minimal damage to the rack of computer servers, and an online training would be more than enough of a penalty.

At home, the man stumbles upon the greenhouse, which is bigger than ever before, taking up the whole front lawn. He heads inside and is struck with a newfound appreciation for his husband’s nurturing of it. Forgiven by his husband and daughter, the man sets out to work on the greenhouse alongside them.