Trapped in a cycle of debt, years as witness and accessory to cold-blooded exploitation have hardened Worm. A final gamble for freedom allows her a chance to regain her humanity and autonomy over her fate.
A Windrush migrant is employed as a servant on an estate, presumably to look after master and manor, including a collection of colonial artefacts, but soon discovers he was actually procured to be part of its most prized possessions.
