Composed in 2010–2012 for the Wet Ink Ensemble and released by Carrier Records on January 1, 2014, this work was written before Soper’s renowned chamber opera Ipsa Dixit, which was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
The music depicts a series of female subjects, trapped in their own killing jars: hopeless situations, inescapable fates, impossible fantasies, and other unlucky circumstances.
[6] In the sixth movement, a young girl Asta Solilja from Halldór Laxness's novel Independent People finds beauty and a dream of love while cloud-gazing on her father's harshly isolated sheep farm in 19th century Iceland.
"[6] In 2015, Michael Lewanski at the Northwestern New Music Conference (NUNC) describes the piece as "ambitious, striking conception" and "a menace, a prison, an enactment of forces of repression".
[5] In 2018, Eric Skelly at the Houston Chronicle stated: "(This is) a score composed in a modernist aesthetic, fueling a disquieting performance that spoke directly to the #MeToo and #NeverAgain movements.