On an early spring day, John Cromartie and Josephine Lackett stroll through the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. As the pair discuss love and their future, John has an idea: he’ll display himself as a zoo animal like any other. If Josephine loves him, she’ll be unable to bear it, and if she doesn’t, well, it doesn’t quite matter to John where he is. Despite its light premise, is a nuanced philosophical and metaphorical story that raises historical and psychological questions.