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OUTSIDE ON THE PROMENADE, the dog walkers, prostitutes, elderly couples taking the cool evening air, lovers smoking grass and off-duty soldiers of both genders—in fact, everyone but the confused tourists, who have no idea what is happening around them—to them—disappear as if plucked by an invisible hand. But as the sirens continue their incessant bleating even the tourists get the message and hurry back to the shelter of their hotels, but here too there is no one to tell them what precisely is going on. Doormen, desk clerks, bartenders, chamber maids are all gone, vanished as if they never were. For fear of reprisals, even the Arab workers are gone.