Cindy is a young woman living in Barbados. She and the rest of her community are celebrating Carnival, an annual festival that takes place before Lent in the Black Caribbean Catholic tradition. One night, as the streets are filled with drunken people, she seeks out Darnell, a man with whom she has an unclear history. She finds him dancing with another woman. She lures him away with the promise of sorrel, a fruity rum drink often served during holidays. Darnell goes with her, but he remarks that the sorrel will probably be bad since it was made by Cindy’s American-born father. She bristles at his implication that she’s not Barbadian enough. She leads him to an apartment building, of which her father is the superintendent. It’s under construction, and the basement is filled with cement blocks and wet concrete. She gives Darnell the sorrel. He gets even drunker and barely bats an eye when he notices that Cindy has cuffed his ankle to a cinder block. When he realizes her plans, it’s too late. Cindy packs him behind the basement wall brick by brick. She comments that her grandfather taught her father how to lay bricks, and her father taught her. Now she can use her skills to get back at Darnell for degrading her body and her heritage. He screams and begs for forgiveness, but the noisy streets drown him out. After Darnell is sealed behind the wall, Cindy goes upstairs and rejoins the festival. Every year during Carnival, she relishes the thought of her tormentor trapped inside a concrete tomb.