It is probably Australia. But it could be anywhere where the sun is hot enough to bake the earth into boundless stretches of cracked crazy-paving. It is probably an alternate recent past. But it co…
” is that it is an allegory so direct as to be obvious, told in a style so spartan as to be opaque. Not one syllable of intelligible language is spoken, but the choral anguish of generations subjugated to colonial cruelty rings loud through every wordless frame.
Lips chapped and face dusty, she swelters by day and freezes by night as the stars swirl in timelapse across the sky. Who knows how long passes, before she notices a bend in one of the cage’s bars. Preternaturally nimble despite all the privation, she worries at it until a short piece snaps off. This she sharpens for use as a screwdriver to loosen the padlocked door. Suddenly, she’s free — or at least in a much larger prison.
With less hostile terrain come different perils. An airborne plague has ravaged the land , forcing the ruling classes, such as those who drove BlackWoman into the desert, to wear muffling, mole-man gasmasks. Of the remaining unfortunates, those who have dodged the plague appear likely to end up swinging from a noose — many is the tree, bridge and crumbling building that bears such strange fruit.
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