故事背景设定在90年代中期的复古未来版的平行世界中， Wyrm是一个不善社交的青少年，与孤独、青春期和社会的沉重期望作斗争。在这个世界上，学区通过远程项圈监控学生的情感和性发展，只有接吻后项圈才会自动打开，这是名为“不让一个孩子孤独”的项目的一部分。Wyrm是年级里最后一个还未接吻过的人，他必须在6天内完成这个要求。否则他将会被留级，而这会让他终身感到羞耻和尴尬。

In an alternative 1990s a lonely, dinosaur-obsessed boy named Wyrm struggles to complete a unique school requirement in which students wear electronic collars that detach only upon engaging in their first kiss.

Wyrm is falling behind. His twin sister, Myrcella, has become a woman after she and the Norwegian foreign exchange student did fingering at the cinemas. She wants Wyrm to move into their dead brother Dylan's room so she can have privacy and space for her personal items. Wyrm has two days to complete his Level 1 Sexuality Requirement or he'll be held back as part of the School District's No Child Left Alone program and forced to continue wearing his My.E.Q. Electronic Emotional Remote Monitoring Collar.

Early one winter morning in the town of Ruthin in North Wales, three men are called upon once again to carry out a terrible assignment on the Bwlch Pen Barras mountain pass.