This new book by Todd Hido (b. 1968) marks a departure that takes him back to some of the experiments in narrative sequencing he explored in graduate school while studying with Larry Sultan. This series began with two photographs: a found studio portrait of a mother taken in the 1950s, and a found archival newspaper photograph taken by a reporter in the aftermath of a car accident. Hido placed the portrait on the front cover of the book and the car accident on the back cover, then worked to connect the two narratively using his own archive of portraits, landscapes and photographs of houses.
 
The resulting book is a pulp tale that hints at some of the backgrounds and histories suggested by many of the people Hido has featured in his other projects: "I have always felt that many of the models I have worked with to make nudes were somehow revisiting something from their past by posing for the camera. As humans, we have a peculiar attraction to re-engaging later in life with the things that trouble us most."