
The story immediately feels like a play, starting with Joe, a disheartened music teacher, returning home to find his meticulous and worried wife, Angela, busy preparing a dinner party for their neighbors upstairs. Joe is caught off guard, especially since he and Angela dislike these neighbors, who disturb them with loud noises at all hours. Their constant arguing early on hints that their neighbors might actually be more stable than they are. When Hawk and Pina arrive, they seem calm and perceptive, even revealing they overheard Joe and Angela’s fight before knocking. He’s a former firefighter, she’s a sex therapist, and suddenly, the neighbors are in control of the situation, mentally and emotionally.