Shellfish grows up under the pollution of a steel plant in a coastal village. The factory or the distribution center: these are the choices ahead. It is work in places without windows, dictated by the clock. But Shellfish dreams of a different future: no longer to serve, but to be a master.

Will Shellfish succeed to break free? How radical must one be to do so? Surrender on Demand is about the difference between people who get to choose their future and those who have to suffer their fate. About villagers and day-trippers. About how violence is committed so casually – when it affects the other. And about seagulls. A carnivalesque, satirical, intense, big, small novel about class and destiny.