Seven lives on the edge of a precipice in a single interweaving narrative. Seven characters, portrayed through clear and compelling prose, move to try to change their destiny. Wealthy bourgeois spouses, a prostitute fleeing from the streets, an unhappy politician... The author films them inside and out, as they hope, decide, and lose everything. When dormant dreams awaken from immobility, seeking healing, love,... or the most violent passion, the chain of choices leads the protagonists to a point of no return: all that's left is to cheat at life's table, even with the rigged cards of Second Life. Max Giovagnoli, a pioneer of cross-media communication, delivers a debut of great emotional impact. With lucid and polychromatic writing that effectively blends different narrative forms – from social novel to digital dialogues to cinematic sequences – the author proceeds with as many freeze-frames on the seven characters' stories. From each one, he tries to extract the heart by focusing on their existential throat-knot, crossing and grafting it onto the others. And finally reconstructing a fresco that tells of the errors and regrets of a handful of lives twisted like wet rags in the streets of Rome.Show more