This implication is redoubled by the show's other major component, a sturdy life-size chata, or Polish summerhouse, made of warmscented raw timber, its interior brightened by eleven drawings and collages in battered, scavenged frames painted gold (luxury gotten plaintively cheap), and eleven pieces of floral needlework, resembling table decorations and keying up a broader inference of embroidery.

The Hebrew verb chata, "to sin," like the Greek word hamartia, literally means straying off the path, getting lost, missing the mark.

Soveida's cleaning woman Chata also raises cleaning to a spiritual level, never using plastic gloves because of her need to return to the body and to "feel" and experience the work (211).