Cheap is the story of a well-paid but obsessively stingy man moving through a cheap supermarket, city streets, minor humiliations, family duties, and a bored relationship while his thoughts spiral through disgust, vanity, anxiety, desire, and regret. As he saves money on ordinary groceries but remains trapped in much larger emotional discomforts, the small details of daily life become almost unbearable. It is a dry, neurotic story about money, control, self-contempt, intimacy, and the exhausting pettiness of trying to live efficiently.