Photophobia is a story about an official holding power in a small concrete town. She makes everyone who comes to her office fill in countless forms and then sends the guests to an unused floor of a Brutalist office building. Although it is completely dark there and there is absolutely no hope for getting any business done, the characters thoughtlessly do as they are told and wait in the dark corridor for hours. Nobody questions the official’s pointless instructions. After work, the protagonist steals light bulbs from street lights, which she then brings home and destroys to prevent them from glowing again. By gradually destroying light she attempts to constrain the residents of her town, trying to convince them at the same time that darkness is exactly what they need. ‘There’s freedom in darkness’, she says.