This is a "novel of nouvelles", the portrait of a city, composed of four variations on the same theme: one person, suddenly and by accident, finally understands the life of another. Paternity, infidelity, death, the inability to express your own feelings, the sudden erruption of love, the fascination for the other, the architecture of desire, the fear of happiness, the central themes which shake the lives of the protagonists of these excellent tales are, in reality, the themes of any life, masterfully told.