Multiple narrators animate this strikingly realistic work denouncing violence in all its forms and attempting to put words to the unspeakable.

Mona has a nice family, a gift for drawing, and as of just recently, a wonderful, considerate boyfriend. She hasn't noticed that this boyfriend has been insidiously trapping her in a toxic relationship, turning her life into a nightmare. But there are other people in Mona's life, too: her best guy friend Marin; her neighbor Lya, whom Mona reminds of a painful past; Esther, an unexpected ally; and Cassien, a poet who's witnessed human cruelty in all its forms. Their fates will interwine with hers as they help her escape the web that has snared so many other women.