Guido and Gabriella are the young protagonists of two parallel stories that are destined to intersect. The story begins in 2024 in Bologna,  devastated by the pandemic that hit the planet from 2020 onwards, and develops over six months. Italy and Europe are torn apart by the advance of radical right wing parties that have managed to be elected by tired and disillusioned people by using every means of manipulative consensus.
The two protagonists’ lives are at a turning point, in the wake of a past filtered through a number of flashbacks, which the author uses
to take the reader into the intimacy of their stories, with a focus on the passions, the losses of their dearest affections, and the complications of their sentimental and social lives.
Democracy is in crisis, and social inequalities are growing. The decline of western culture is in the final act. Will Guido and Gabriella be able to find a dimension to their existence? Will the spark of their encounter and the love that follows help them find their compass along the porticoes of their journey?
A dystopian provocative novel aiming at demonstrating that sometimes there is a thin line between fantasy and reality. And what in the narrative is pure invention could still happen, perhaps with more devastating effects.