E5 Lives and E8 Traits. E9 Dines.

A family of seven sit in the curtainless front room. The height of the ceiling, the size of the room, which is somehow narrow and deceptively small, all serves to give the window onto the street a disproportionate importance, like some unfortunate portal that relentlessly disturbs any domestic peace. The slightest shout from outside and the family flinch and the kids rush to peer out, hopelessly attracted, overflowing almost, from within their four bare indoor walls. It is not much more than cave life, hanging over the high street of deprivation.