Tokyo's internet cafes were built for gamers and business travelers killing time between trains, but by the mid-2000s a different clientele had moved in permanently. The film follows Japanese day laborers, so-called disposal workers who take whatever temporary contract work is available, as they sleep in cramped cafe booths because they cannot afford an apartment deposit or the guarantor a landlord requires. Interviews with these net cafe refugees lay out the mechanics of the trap: without a fixed address, steady employment is hard to get, and without steady employment, no landlord will rent to them, so the cafe becomes the only affordable shelter, charged by the hour. Footage inside the cafes shows the reclining chairs, partitioned cubicles, and shower facilities that have turned a leisure business into informal housing for Japan's working poor. The film treats this as a symptom of a wider shift in Japanese labor, where lifetime employment has given way to precarious contract work with no safety net underneath it.