A school girl wanders the neighbourhood planning her suicide, watched by an
ambitious young woman being fitted out not only for her wedding dress, but
also for her political role. Mrs Ma folds letters on behalf of Chinese
dissidents, while a Filipina maid worries that the family is planning to
emigrate, but if they are, why is she being sent to buy a car space? It’s been
raining for a week and the embankment is seeping. Fragments is the story of
these women interwoven around an inquest at which all but one must testify.
