Gelsomina is an elderly French bulldog who lives in a glass house in the mountains. Paned by transparency, she’s lived in imitations—of the man and the woman, of the younger dog, Zampanò, of the wild unknown beyond the windows.

One day, Gelsomina accidentally ingests an orb of parasitic worms. Approaching death, and filled with new life, she begins to see everything differently. She makes changes in the pattern of her days, and the glass house fractures into many voices. The worms burrowing into Gelsomina regard her body as an imperfect structure, the home they inherited but did not dream of. The couple—Wendy, in interiors, and John, in architectural design—face the claws of human attachment, and what our will to domesticate means for the life of an animal who can see the wild, but never...

Gelsomina is an elderly French bulldog who lives in a glass house in the mountains. Paned by transparency, she’s lived in imitations—of the man and the woman, of the younger dog, Zampanò, of the wild unknown beyond the windows.

One day, Gelsomina accidentally ingests an orb of parasitic worms. Approaching death, and filled with new life, she begins to see everything differently. She makes changes in the pattern of her days, and the glass house fractures into many voices. The worms burrowing into Gelsomina regard her body as an imperfect structure, the home they inherited but did not dream of. The couple—Wendy, in interiors, and John, in architectural design—face the claws of human attachment, and what our will to domesticate means for the life of an animal who can see the wild, but never...