Inès, Estelle and Garcin only have guesses as to why they ended up in this hell together: an interior space without windows and mirrors. Walled in as high as a tower, only occasionally visited by a quirky waiter. an outside? Doesn't exist here. Even the eyelids are paralyzed; the place threatens to be awake all the time, without the redeeming "black flashes" of blinking. Why were these three people, who never met in life, crammed together here? What guilt brought her here? Are they already holding the torture instruments for the others without knowing it?