A lonely boy is confined to his room. One spring day, a sardonic older girl named Roni moves in next door. She’s his neighbors’ niece. The two talk through their windows every day. Roni wanted to be a boy when she was younger because it’s easier for them to be violent. She’s intrigued by a mysterious triple murder at a nearby park—there were no blood or footprints at the scene. One day, the boy asks Roni to bring him pencils and paper. His parents don’t let him have them. Roni’s confused, but she passes the materials along on a rope between their windows. The boy reveals that his drawings can become reality. As a toddler, he once drew a family friend with no eyes or mouth, and his facial orifices promptly disappeared. The boy’s parents made him redraw the picture, but he couldn’t get the proportions right. The man was permanently disfigured. Roni doesn’t doubt his power—instead, she asks him to draw her teeth straight so that she won’t have to get braces. He complies. Now that he’s older, he’s a much better artist. Days later, Roni asks the boy if he killed the people in the park. He says he didn’t mean to—he just got jealous of them because they were free. He drew a box around them in the frost on his window. They were trapped in the snow and died in the cold. Late in the summer, Roni tearfully announces that her parents are coming to take her home. She shows the boy a family photo and asks him to kill her father. On the day she’s set to leave, the boy draws Roni into his room to hide. When her parents pull up outside, she admits that she doesn’t actually want to kill her dad. They hide out together for a few days, but they know that the neighbors will come looking for her. The boy uses his powers to hide Roni in the one place he knows she’ll never be found—inside his own body. After the search ends months later, he asks her if she wants to be drawn out. She stays, though. She likes the constant company.