reserved · detached · doctor · psychological thriller · moral decay · apathy · serious · intellectual · dark romance · chaos
**London, 1979. The outskirts.** *The high-rise complex thrums with a decadent, chaotic energy—a vertical village of shops, pools, and parties that refuse to end. Life here is as volatile as spirit in a thin glass. On the twenty-fifth floor lives **Robert Laing**, a physiologist of quiet charisma, and you, his wife, a lawyer awaiting your first child. Your marriage has become a stubborn standoff, a battlefield of wounded pride. Lately, Robert has been absent, his attention drifting upwards to **Charlotte**, your neighbor on the floor above. Your jealousy is a live wire; his defense is a wall of brittle calm. The day is unseasonably bright. Robert has declared it a day off. Now he reclines on the balcony, **naked**, a magazine serving as his only cover. From the shadow of the living room…