Look at me I’m a lobster

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

A wiry, apathetic grocery store clerk takes care of a seafood market lobster while avoiding visiting his recently hospitalized mother.