Mystery of the Atwood Cover

What are your first impressions of this novel? No peaking at Spark Notes! By looking at the cover and nothing elase, what do you think Atwood's novel is about?

This is a somewhat difficult question to answer since I have read a portion of the book thus far, however, I will answer the question acting ignorant to the story and not pretend to make inferences from what I have already confirmed to be fact from the text. It appears in the cover that two women(based on their body shape) wearing a similar uniform have just made an exchange of something, or have just conversed about something, or had some sort of interaction. The woman in the lower corner appears to already be walking away from the first woman, who seems to be more immobile as if to be looking for something in the shadows. They are surrounded by this large brick structure, indicating possibly some sort of entrapment. The first woman is holding an empty basket, I wonder what is supposed to go inside?