The rat is a peridomestic animal.

On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town (twinned with Chernobyl), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services.

that he may live in figure and indulgence

a mythless society