Its a lot less subtle and suggestive than how deliberately obscure this version is. The plot is straightforward; a female monkey-dog-ish alien in a society of poverty is surgically distorted into a human form, and takes the job of an Earth truck driver in her objectively beautiful body. This is described to be constantly extremely painful but it pays food and breathable air and an inhabitable surface which are very luxurious compared to her planet where the poor live underground in the dark and the rich royals are confined to glass domes and also face starvation.

She lures human men in her truck, determines whether or not they will be missed, drugs them, and takes them to a barn where they are brutally, cruelly processed as livestock just like we do to cows, for gourmet food sent to the royals of her species.

The obvious themes are a criticism of beauty/misogyny/rape, anti capitalism, and animal torture in factory farming. She meets one of the princes of her planet, an activist who explains how terribly cruel the human meat industry is, and quits the job after realizing she’s still deeply miserable in her new life. She decides to kill herself after a horribly graphic truck accident as her skinsuit is destroyed and exposes her muscles and nerves irreparably, hence the title. It was overall visceral, graphic, violent, uncomfortably painful, super depressing, but also really interesting. Youve almost mentioned all of the prominent themes which were rather neatly compressed into the book, but all the points seem to lack integrity with so many “cringe” scenes and crucial aspects missing from the cinematic version.