Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Identical twins Oliver and Oswald Deuce lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. The brothers, who are zoologists, become obsessed with the death and decay of animals. They both have a relationship with Alba, the driver of the crashed car, who loses first one leg then the other.—<[email protected]>

"A Zed and Two Noughts" follows the lives of Alba Bewick, and Oswald and Oliver Deuce. When an accident with a white swan leaves Alba without a leg and the Deuces' wives dead, the trio must cope with a scheming doctor and their own grief. It is the brothers' grief that leads to their fixation with natural decay of animal flesh. As they progress in their grief process they seek more and more complex animals to watch fade away. The brothers' obsessions leaves them in peril of losing their jobs and drives them closer to the person at the wheel when their wives perished: Alba. In the end, their insatiable appetite for decay leads them to the top of the food chain: Humans. But who must meet an end for the evolution of Oliver and Oswald's grief?—FMJ_Joker