We are in the middle of a big city. What do we see? In a restaurant, a woman uses her sick mother as an excuse not to move in with her boyfriend. In a bicycle shop, a man writes a love poem into thin air. In the park, one woman convinces another to vote for a new gun control law. In the polluted river, anglers discover dead fish. Again and again, our gaze wanders to the flat of Erik and Nino, a couple who are slowly drifting apart, almost unintentionally. The play paints a panorama of a society in which people are accessible and shy, pleasure-seeking and fearful. Only the eldest, Mrs Yamamoto, leaves her door open to let a draught in, so that the world can enter – in all its beauty and cruelty.