Summary

This story begins with narration of the expensive, expansive houses that a film director named Mike is looking at as he prepares to shoot the pilot of a new reality series, and how the exterior of one such house is completely different from the life going on inside – the life he is planning to film. The narration also comments on how Mike wants to move into more legitimate, more drama-oriented filmmaking, but that his success with reality television is keeping producers from hiring him for other things.

Mike is about to knock on the door of the house, but it is opened by Lisbeth, the woman whose family and whose life he is about to document. She is thin, with a missing tooth and patchy skin. As Mike goes in, he notes the crates of fruit, the overwhelming smell, and the...