A middle-aged bank employee throws his quiet life into the air for the sake of love. A humble taxi driver believes he has been granted the privilege to defy the laws of nature. A young child discovers the flicker of desire where even thought is a sin. A retired professor is driven to humiliation because he dared to be enchanted by an exotic immigrant. A mysterious woman mercilessly punishes an unsuspecting man for his sickly passion.

Lost and shameless, motionless and misguided, the anti-heroes of these short stories carry within them the small defeat that silently devours their everyday life and the great hope that with a desperate move they can overcome it. Some, when they find themselves between the walls, will realize that the human condition, despite its cruelty and sorrow, is also joy and offering, mercy and compassion.

Harsh, rhetorical but also unexpected, the stories of the book traverse memory and experience, leaving the trace of the small story amidst the confusion and awkwardness of the times.