Three sisters, one well, and the arithmetic of a drought year.
An ageing actor finally gets his lead, for one night, in an empty theatre.
A hospital cleaner and a night-porter share four minutes of stillness before dawn.
A greenhouse of blooms that smell of rot, and the botanist who loves them.
A runaway and a driver at the end of his final route.
A grieving florist folds the sea one flower at a time.
A harbour town keeps vigil for a boat that may not return.
Two customs officers, one shipment nobody wants to open.
A city recorded only by the shaking of its windows.
The last office still drawing maps by hand refuses to close.
The parlour kept for guests who never come.
Three seasons in a border greenhouse where everything grows except certainty.
Everything one man owned, read aloud in the order he lost it.