A yet-unnamed girl walks through streets steeped in unheard histories. Traveling to the city alone to inform his father of his sister’s birth, a ten-year-old boy confronts injustice for the first time. A teenage girl makes a life-and-death decision for her delinquent brother. The father of a girl who survived the raging floods notices her unusual treatment of her prized rag doll. An unknown perpetrator threatens to release a local beauty queen’s nudes. The girl, now with a name, is recruited into an infamous white man’s home in a secluded old subdivision. In these ten stories, the so-called City of Golden Friendship is a space of progress and bliss tempered by decay and self-destruction.