Her house has four bedrooms: her own, her little brother Sam's room, that of her parents, and the one with the carcasses. Her father is a big-game hunter, a powerful predator, and her mother a fragile, trembling amoeba, submissive to her violent husband's demands. The young narrator spends the days playing with Sam in the shells of cars dumped for scrap, while listening out for the melody of the ice-cream truck. Until a brutal accident shatters this...

In the year following her parents' divorce, highly imaginative eight-year-old Nenny has a creeping premonition that something terrible will happen, and when this hunch comes true in the most unexpected of ways, she must deal with the fallout.