In rain-soaked Seattle nights, nightshift worker Marion maintains careful distance from her self-absorbed roommate Claire, their eight-year “friendship” only surface civility. When Claire says boyfriend Brad is moving in, Marion feels no heartbreak - just the need to find a new place. Hungry and withdrawing, she slips out into the dark, resisting a dangerous old contact, and heads to the Donjon bar instead. There, failed connections only confirm her truth: survival requires isolation, practicality over emotion, and strict control of appetites no one understands. This is the opening move in a longer game of evasion and the slow unraveling of a long-hidden secret.