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Roderick Usher, the last male member of a dying family, lives with his twin sister Madeline in the family's dilapidated ancestral home. Roderick, who is struggling with an acute health crisis, has enlisted the help of a childhood friend. Roderick's sister, who is being cared for by a live-in doctor, is also ill and suffers from severe physical attacks. Increasingly, Roderick finds himself in the grip of irrational fears, which drive him mad.

Usher, Debussy's original and unfinished opera, morphs into an urgently topical tale of violation of the personal freedom of movement and manipulation of fear and paranoia in the name of protection and safety. After all, the doctor, who endorses Roderick's self-selected quarantine, knows: "Fear is a powerful virus of which I am both the germ and the cure."