A prototype of the Nevermore-A-Matic robot relays its grave dirge for the animal inhabitants of the stunted birch groves of Arctic Finland. In lieu of a dead reindeer, a Franken-carcass made of pig, cow, and sheep parts, each bought wrapped in plastic from the supermarket, becomes the plastic robot's subject and the quarry of the local magpies, hooded crows, flies, and a fox that would have it all for herself. The sun never sets.