The long-awaited arrival of Aunt Sylvie takes her two nieces by surprise. Outside in the garden, Lucille and Ruth build a snowman and see a woman walk towards the house. Apprehensive about their new relative, a stranger to them like much of their family, the two sisters head inside and join their aunt at the kitchen table. Lucille is wearing a red cable-knit jumper and Ruth is wearing a blue one. Aunt Sylvie removes her coat to reveal an emerald green dress, and the three of them sit together for dinner. One red, one blue, and one green. Three complementary colours, but colours not entirely at ease. The primary red and blue sit at odds with the secondary green, an outlier in this relationship, and one that suggests the absence of a yellow that must’ve been here before. The absence lingers, and the girls enthusiastically ask Aunt Sylvie to tell them stories about their mother. “It’s hard to describe someone you know so well”. The chasm of the missing yellow can never be filled by the green.