FRAGMENTS OF HONG KONG

A school girl wanders the neighbourhood planning her suicide, watched by an ambitious young woman being fitted out for her wedding dress, and 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.