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In the installation, García references Albert Camus' famous novel The Plague from 1947. In the book, the disease appears as an allegory of the scourge of misfortune in all its forms: totalitarianism, fascism, war, the deprivation of freedom that leads to exile – and is also a non-metaphoric study of a community afflicted by an infectious disease, something we can very much relate to now. The work expands Camus' narrative to touch on colonialism (Camus' plague happens in Algeria) and consists of several elements: a chart (Mapping the Plague), a diagram drawn on the floor, several study drawings, and a performance that activates the floor drawing (The Drawing on the Floor: A Monologue).