Easy meat

The south Wales valleys, 23rd June, 2016. It’s another long day chopping beef carcasses up at the slaughterhouse for former reality TV star Caleb Jenkins, whose untroubled world unravelled when his old man’s carpet business went bust last year, another casualty of the global fnancial crisis. While he’s busy trying to manage the wellbeing of his conspiracy-theorist brother, the mortgage keeping a roof over his bankrupt parents’ heads, his own excruciating grief, internal rage and impossible credit score, politicians of all persuasions are promising the scared and voiceless people around him real change. Desperate for acknowledgement and a transformation he can’t quite bring about by his own means, Caleb is on the edge. ‘Easy Meat’ is a glimpse of a young man and a country on the verge of a momentous decision.