The book sets side by side two dates: 16 July 1945, the Trinity test, the first atomic bomb, and 16 July 1969, the day Apollo 11 left the Kennedy Space Center for the Moon. For the author they are the beginning of two eras that clash and flow in different directions: annihilation and creation, the Yin and Yang of man. The space race and the images of the Earth seen from space are set against a destiny of self-destruction, despair and violence that leads to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Maybe coincidences do not exist, or maybe they exist; the author was born on 16 July.