“How you gonna leave water all over the sink like that? Your momma ain’t here. You in prison!”

Zara Potts has always felt a connection to the sea. On a dark night, with only the stars for company, she contemplates her love for the waves and the sky and wonders how she managed to live so long with shipwrecks.

In that place between waking and sleeping, Erika Rae finds herself floating on her back and staring up at the sky. Against the blue screen she watches caged elephants and bad Viennese karaoke. She is certain this means something.