A spot of perfect darkness resides behind the mind of Lise. An inherited illness her mother passed on to her, which she knows only as NON, beckons her into a stasis deeper than comatose. Something near to death, and ever more seductive death for its impermanence, which plagued her mother throughout her life. For much of Lise’s childhood her mother lay in a cool, near death state. Her return from NON always uncertain. It happened upon Lise herself in her adolescence and she fears how a part of her yearns to return to it and remain in it forever. This time she wakes to ask "How long?" but next she drifts away she may get the answer she asks for, dreading and yearning in close measure, every time she wakes. To the only end.