In an unnamed city, where to be interesting is Dangerous, an eighteen-year-old woman has attracted the unwanted and unavoidable attention of a powerful and frightening older man, "Milkman". In this commnity, where suggestions quickly become fact, where gossip and hearsay can lead to terrible conséquences, what can she do to stop a rumour once it has started? Milkman is persistent, the word is spreadind, and she no longer control...