In The Yard, Amelie Eclat is known as a Poodle who is an artist with the patience of a tinkerer and the timing of a comedian. Amelie Eclat keeps a private map of the rooftop kennels, marked with which corners feel kind and which feel watched. There is a corner of the drowned subway tunnels where Amelie Eclat is unofficially assumed to be in charge of nothing in particular. Amelie Eclat believes ordinary days are where big mysteries hide, usually under a bowl or behind a door nobody checked.