After a Japanese company is acquired by a foreign fund, Tanaka, 41, is demoted from hired president to ordinary employee and must hand control to Melody, the forceful 25-year-old head of the Japan office. She despises Japan, looks down on its people, and relentlessly humiliates him. Seeking revenge, Tanaka uses hypnosis: the phrase “ladies first” sends her into an obedient state, and he implants a fetish for smelling semen, beginning a campaign of brainwashing, shame, and degradation.