The Long Indoors

During the great lockdowns of 2020, the world shrank to the size of a window. Inside one apartment tower in a city under curfew, ordinary people learned to live an entire life within four walls — and discovered that isolation is not the same as being alone. These are stories from the quiet year: neighbours who became strangers and strangers who became lifelines, the small heroisms and slow unravelings that happened behind every closed door.