Translated by Amy Spangler. özgðr, having deserted her past and secluded herself from the outer world, is poor and on the verge of a mental breakdown. She has a single weapon left in the all-out war she has declared against Rio de Janeiro: to write the city, which has robbed her of everything. As we read the pieces of özgðr's unfinished novel, The City in Crimson Cloak, with its autobiographical protagonist named, for the time being, only as ö., we begin to put together the fragments of özgðr's story.