Bernadette's apartment/ Heidi and Her Mom's Apartment

Bernadette has lived in the apartment with her father before his death. His sudden death at the age of 75 caused her agoraphobia. Bernadette cannot leave her apartment, even to throw trash out. Before Heidi became old enough to take something down from the apartment, if something could not go down the disposal or the toilet, it remained in the apartment. Her home was full of clutter and trash.

It is connected to Sophia and Heidi’s apartment through an old door at the back of Bernadette’s hall linen closet. When Bernadette first saw Sophia and Heidi's apartment, it was empty. Bernadette completely furnished the apartment with the extra furniture in her apartment without a noticeable decrease of her own possession.

For the first several years of Heidi’s life, nobody left the apartments because Sophia could not be trusted to go...