Harrowing and poignant, this novella kept me guessing. We meet main character Kalan during what we discover is a typical "cycle" -- residents of this world live in a perpetual fog underneath a gigantic cloud. They've never seen the sun; there is no day or night, merely cycles that denote when they should work or rest. Kalan is a "scrubber" and ekes out a meager hand-to-mouth existence in a dystopian world earning credits by removing fungi from the walls of the skyscrapers in the city. Galindo paints a grim but vivid picture of a world all-but destroyed by pollution and dominated by violence. A quick but gripping read.