A young couple on a Southern road trip stumbles upon a remote Alabama smokehouse with mouthwatering barbecue and a deadly secret-what's on the menu isn't just meat, and escaping with their lives will be the real main course.

As society unravels, employees at a Los Angeles ad agency bury themselves in work, clinging to promotions as lifelines amid suffering coworkers and sudden layoffs, until their collective denial reveals the dark forces quietly running a ruthless corporate world.