This is a novel of nouvelles, a portrait of a city made up of four variations on the same theme: a person, suddenly and accidentally, finally understands the life of the other. Paternity, infidelity, death, the incapacity to communicate ones emotions, the sudden eruption of love, the fascination for the other, the architecture of desire, fear of happiness, these are the central themes that shake the lives of the characters of these excellent nouvelles. They are the themes of any life, magisterially created by an author about which it has been said: Andrs Barba doesnt need any help. He has an intentional world perfectly closed and an improper mastery for his age (Mario Vargas Llosa).