Beef is the story of Drew, an introverted young man, bullied and abused throughout his life, who aspires to be a body builder, but can't quite ever seem to achieve his goals.
His sanity ends when his girlfriend leaves him for his odd and obsessed health fanatic ways, and he's beaten up and bullied just one too many times.
He begins murdering local body builders, as he searches for the ultimate key to health and strength. Inevitably his search leads him to an ancient secret which adds new truth and meaning to the expression: "you are what you eat."