"I'm thirty-five years old, I have a good job, a nice salary, an apartment on the fortieth floor, and I live in the most desired city in the world. Yet, I feel that within this frame of lights and movement, I can no longer find my dimension. In reality, I don't even know exactly when I stopped believing in New York, and in myself. But this city is like that: just when you start to believe that everything flows without reason, it surprises you and catches you off guard once again."

The protagonist of this story has lost that indefiniteness and adolescent enthusiasm, that desire to live without which even New York becomes a boring city. Yet every night, as he looks out the windows of the skyscraper where he lives, the charm of New York captivates him, as if, with its solitary noises, it seeks to dispel those doubts to keep him to itself. The ambulance siren, a taxi, a shout out of nowhere, and then firefighters, garbage trucks, car horns, a demonstration. A wonderful American democracy that comes to life at night, when an infinite dance of chance encounters begins, which are the essence of this magical city. But then morning comes, you get up, and you think, "What kind of place have I ended up in?" Only an unexpected encounter, a feeling that questions everything, in short, a special girl, can help him find an answer, to look inside himself: to choose love, a family, or to continue living in that dazzling glass amusement park of streets, neon lights, restaurants, and clubs that is New York?

In this deep and emotional novel, Piero Armenti tells a different and unpublished side of New York: the shadows that populate it under the sparkling lights of the skyscrapers, the deafening silences amidst the noisy crowds, the impossible loves that unite the many solitudes that inhabit it."