Kin to the work of Leonora Carrington and Unica Zrn, Ceilings is a polyphonic novel that takes place in a mental hospital in Prague where the ‘narrator’ is undergoing detox treatment for painkiller and alcohol abuse. As the border blurs between inner experience and the outer world, between reality and dream, as the walls and ceilings hemming in the desire for freedom fantastically break open as if into the unknown, what is explored in flights of imagination is the determination or inability to ‘come out of oneself’, to recognize the preponderance of the other in a multifarious world that requires our engagement, no matter how ambivalent.