"Attention: by majority vote, the legislation to redistribute resources to deserving citizens, formally known as Operation Methuselah, has now been passed and will be in effect immediately from this day, 30 October 1979.

"All persons over the age of 65, the terminally ill and the handicapped, please report to your nearest Chamber’s clinic for processing."

Reduced to numbers, three distraught patients await ‘processing’. They are forced to face their regrets, unfulfilled dreams and most importantly their own mortality, a harrowing and bleakly comic realisation which has not existed in the human psyche since 1979, except in Chamber’s clinic...