ABSTRACT
These are the protagonists. First, there is the young girl, who is alienated from her mother and seems not to show an interest in anything other than cleaning her apartment. The girl's father has been afflicted with syphilis for many years. The father maintains an affair with another, married woman. The girl knows this woman, gets along with her, and becomes friendly with her children, but the woman's husband wants to be the girl's friend as well-too much of a friend, perhaps. Why doesn't her father notice?
