record of a night too brief

The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun! In these three haunting, lyrical stories, three young women experience loss, loneliness and extraordinary romance. A woman travels through an unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, monsters of the mist and a monkey who shows no mercy; a sister mourns her brother, visible only to her, while her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an incident in a park leads a shop girl to discover the snakes in intimate lives everywhere she turns.