A woman confined to an upstairs nursery for her health begins to study the wallpaper, its colour a smouldering, unclean yellow, its pattern an endlessly repeating cage of curves and flourishes that seems, as the weeks pass, to move. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote this story in 1892 from the raw material of her own rest cure, prescribed by a physician who forbade her to write or create. What emerges is a tale of imprisonment disguised as treatment, in which the narrator's journal entries grow fractured as she perceives a woman creeping behind the paper's design. In barely twenty pages, it became one of the most devastating portraits of gendered medicine and the cost of silencing a mind that needs its own voice.