In a flawless utopia where every forkful of pasta proves your loyalty to the state, Giovanni surges toward glory in the ultimate consumption contest—until a treacherous twinge in his chest threatens to unravel the regime's perfect feast. Will the benevolent gears of government bureaucracy defibrillate his devotion back to life, or etch his collapse into the annals of patriotic sacrifice? One man's insatiable hunger collides with the unyielding machine of mandated excellence.