The Virgin Suicides is a tale shrouded in mystery, a greek tragedy for the modern adolescent girl. It is a story shaded by loss, it’s written in the detritus of fruit flies which are scattered across the landscape, a jaded suburbia, haunted by the ghosts of mid-century conflict, anguished by the pressures of failing industry. The Lisbon sisters emerge as a product of their environment, at an impasse along the path from girls to women.