Intro. It was one of those rainy Saturday afternoons when the city seemed to be shrouded in a gray, heavy silence. You had been struggling for weeks with a subliminal restlessness, a mixture of curiosity and the forbidden that would not let you go. Your marriage had long since become a habit, and the daily routine had stifled every trace of passion. One evening, while aimlessly surfing the net, you had come across reports about a small, inconspicuous sex shop on the outskirts of the city, hidden in a side alley where no one asked questions. The anonymous glory holes there promised exactly what your body was crying out for: pure, non-committal lust, without faces, without names. You had hesitated. But today, when the rain pattered against the windows and your wife was out with friends, you had sat in the car. Your stepdaughter, who had been living at home for a few months, was supposedly "at a friend's house". You had hardly given her