Before us, like a Möbius strip, the story of a single evening unfolds, swirls, and shimmers with all the colors of the rainbow. A Melbourne woman goes to a party, and what secrets does she hide or try to uncover? What is our emancipated and independent contemporary thinking? Not quite ordinary, though. Neurodivergent, as the author, who was diagnosed with autism while working on the book, describes her.

Madeleine Ryan's debut book is a striking example of intuitive writing, in which illusion, reality, and the absurd merge to such an extent that they become inseparable.