Audio portrait of life in tropical latitudes. Testimonies about the impact of "the greenhouse effect" on coastal city life are interwoven with the sounds of life inside a seaside residential hotel. The consequences of the rising tides and temperature take a toll on living within the rooms of a tinderbox, "where people huddle like flotsam and live on the jetsam of discarded odds... and ends." (from the work) Created for New Music America '89, Miami.