Early every morning he buys coffee out of a vending machine and travels from his tiny home to clean toilets in Tokyo's public parks. He goes about this with great diligence.
At lunchtime Hirayama photographs the light through the trees. He mostly eats from the same few places. Aside from this he reads and listens to music, mostly 60s and 70s Western rock, on cassette. At night he dreams in black and white.
That's it.
Val has an affluent lifestyle and loving husband Robbie (Miles Robbins) and the pair are trying for a baby. Things couldn't be better: a world away from her working class Vietnamese immigrant childhood.
She just needs to get her birth certificate for the visa, something her estranged father may still have in a box somewhere. It's approaching the anniversary of Val's mother's death and she'd rather avoid speaking to him. Also she's developed an irritating persistent itch on the back of her head. Robbie says to visit the doctor but she's simply got no time for that.
No good will come of this.
CW: body horror, mutilation, bugs
Now decades later that drone/VR technology has evolved so that people can become couch potatoes indulging in VR fantasies while using a fraction of their mind to do everyday labour, taking the place of the robots.
One day, orphan Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) finds a fugitive robot in her backyard. It is in the form of Cosmo: a cartoon robot beloved by her younger brother who died around the time of the uprising. Through its rudimentary vocabulary of cartoon phrases it manages to persuade her that somehow it is him and that it needs her help.
Divine G suggests they bring in Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin (himself) but the troubled drug dealer is sullen and disruptive claiming all their material is too serious and that they should do a comedy.
Unsure where to go with this the men throw in an absurd hotchpotch of ideas: cowboys, Egypt, pirates, time travel, Freddie Kruger and Hamlet but their external Director unexpectedly throws all this this into a script over a weekend.
Now all they've got to do is actually deliver it.
She has become bitter and cynical, unwilling to take part in group activities, but is persuaded to head into the city for a theatre performance by the promise of pizza afterwards.
No good will come of this.
CW: violent mayhem