Ninety Days of Silence

Ninety days to tell the truth about a woman you have never met. Ninety days, and then either the door opens or it doesn't. Nina was taken from a parking garage on an ordinary Tuesday. She wakes in a soundproofed room that is exactly 9 by 11 feet, with a lamp, a mattress, and a voice through a speaker asking about Ruth. She does not know Ruth. She spends thirty days saying so, and thirty days realising it does not matter. There have been others. She finds their initials scratched into the door frame, one set at a time, six women who also did not know Ruth and also went silent. On day eighty-one, Nina lies to him in a way that is completely true. On day eighty-three, he opens the door. On day eighty-four, only one of them walks out.