Hong Kong is a place of strong contrasts: a claustrophobic urban environment surrounded by water and uncontained nature. The photographer lived there with the family between 2014 and 2022. Every now and then, walking through the city, a tram would go past with its destination sign reading Happy Valley, its terminal stop. In those moments, when the weight of the city is on your shoulders, that name offers a sense of hope. With the aid of visual metaphors, the book analyses the photographer’s own relationship with the city, in an attempt to draw a portrait of Hong Kong and its complex, multilayered realities.