This image of Delphine Seyrig in Alain Resnais’ surrealist classic film Last Year at Marienbad reminded me of the way we are living now: is it a dream or is it real? As we pass each other in landscapes maintaining social distancing , averting our eyes, afraid to breathe each other’s air, we wonder if we have inadvertently stumbled into a parallel world. Only on the front lines of hospitals or in countless claustrophobic sickrooms does the reality come painfully into view.