Britain 300 years in the future. The south is a wasteland, destroyed like much of the rest of the world in a series of conflicts. Resources are scarce and getting scarcer by the day. The only haven is within The Terminal, a vast mega city covering what used to be the Great Manchester conurbation. It is the ultimate recycling system where all materials and fluids are repurposed to maintain the population. Within The Terminal all are safe and equal.

This total equality utopia assigns citizens job roles and refigures their bodies at a cellular level to fit the role, recycling unused matter back into the system. Jobs remain stereotypically gendered while the human body is constantly changed.

Of course, because this is Britain, the class system hasn’t been completely erased. A new ruling class, The Caretakers, a scientific elite, maintain the Terminal but do not participate in its processes.

But there are cracks in the system. A cell mutation is starting to look like a new epidemic. An increasing number of infected are being sent to enjoy their final days in The Hospice. In recognition of their loyal service to the system.