It's the night before Ariel's chemotherapy ” her Friday Water ” and a man is shot outside her house. The Angel of Death is surely circling, she believes; the next to die will likely be her. It isn't self-pity that motivates Ariel's morbid thoughts. Her husband, Barin, is in jail in Cuba (a Canadian documentary filmmaker caught filming the wrong story line). Her beloved older sister, Veronica, has gone to see if she can pull strings and extricate her...