A dead man is found in his apartment, surrounded by the ephemera of his life. A distant acquaintance is called in to clean up the mess and try to make sense of the suicide, which leads to his own world being turned upside down: the things he once thought of as certain cannot now betaken for granted, subsumed by the anonymous urban chaos of city life, populated by voyeurs and outcasts in nameless flats looking for a way out and a way in. Elegantly written, Flat is a 'rear window' for the new millennium.