Sixteen-year-old Joanna has be populate with her overbear auntie Martha in a low-income NYC tenement house edifice of all time since a violent effusion leave her contend a feeling she can merely depict as the “darkness.” Little did she cognize that week after travel in, a biologic menace from the Soviet labor union would go forth the edifice board up and the tenant lock indoors. It’s be one calendar month since they be firstly sequester. With nutrient dwindling away and Martha’s controversial function as leader expand, Joanna recognize that she must confront both her dark and her auntie in order to salvage the tenant. But can she take on the leading without let the dark return over her wholly?