Siobahn is a white blonde cute girl from Wales living in Brooklyn. She wanders into the dirty Dominican restaurant one day to order chicken stew from the buxom waitress and read the “New York Times”. The chicken arrives, and as the waft of odor arrives at her nose, she goes through a list of all spices and ingredients used to make the dish, exhibiting an exquisitely fine-tuned olfactory apparatus.
The paper is the usual crap, so she starts doodling on it. As she doodles, we notice that she is doodling over a picture of a cow. This brings on a flashback of her early childhood in her rural hometown in Wales, where a competition is taking place and her mother is being awarded a second place red ribbon for the pig spleen eating contest.
While being awarded the prize, the mother begins to vomit and dies in a pool of her own semi-digested entrails. Siobahn, watching in amazement as her mother collapses, spies Bonnie, the family prize-winning cow, who is being awarded the first place blue ribbon for most-recognizable-scent competition. Immediately as Bonnie moos in the background, there is a transfer of maternal affection away from the mother towards to cow. Bonnie becomes her mother in that instant.
Back to the present in Brooklyn, Siobahn snaps out of the past and realizes that the picture she is doodling over is that of her mother/cow Bonnie (who is still wearing the blue ribbon, of course). She goes on to read the article which is about the foot-and-mouth epidemic in Britain. She must save Bonnie from destruction.
She immediately departs for her hometown in Wales, where she finds that the bank has auctioned off the family farm. She interrogates the new owners, an old simple farmer couple, only to find that they have volunteered to have their livestock slaughtered, and have handed over Bonnie, along with others, to the local government. This volunteering of cattle is steeped in plot to get their retarded grandson, Noah, out of the foster home in which he is held. Noah’s father was killed in the Gulf War by friendly fire, and his mother, a crack-whore junkie, is in no shape to take care of him, but refuses to give custody to the grandparents.
The local mayor wants to buy a yaght for his bitchy American mistress Gladia, but needs the funds. Luckily, the foot-and-mouth epidemic has created opportunity to siphon off federal government funds in recompense for slaughtered livestock. The mayor is thus on a campaign to increase the number of slaughtered animals in his town, and is eager for local farmers to volunteer their cattle. So a deal is struck between the grandparents of retarded Noah and the mayor to volunteer cattle in exchange for legal manouvering to transfer custody of retarded Noah to the grandparents.
Bonnie has therefore been transported to a federal government detention camp outside of town for cattle marked for slaughter. Siobahn, hot on the trail of Bonnie’s most-recognizable-scent, wanders through smokey fields of cattle, soldiers, and smoldering slaughtered animals. With a zoo of the dead and dying all around her, and soldiers organizing the animals into camps and transport lines in all directions towards countless cow concentration camps, Siobahn forges a path towards Bonnie .
Meanwhile, somewhere on the edge of a field, retarded Noah, at this time is escaping the foster home and pushes off into the ocean on a homemade raft.
Surrounded by gas-masked farmers and government agents with brain-guns and funeral pyres adjacent to mass grave ditches, Siobahn finds Bonnie and they have a moo together for a split second before a soldier brain-guns Bonnie between the eyes, and she is hauled via crane to the funeral pyre among the scorched remains of 970,000 other cattle.