n nIn a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. The world is this house, says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. n nAs Claras connection to the outside is stripped away--the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy--desperation and paranoia take hold. Its a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.n