Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less: a woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years; a man who bled quietly to death in his living room; a woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion; the still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead. Not just the story of a life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.