A choral book of true stories, of close encounters with people in Italy who go beyond: from the man who runs a funeral parlour in Mirandola and offers a cryogenic service, to the bedroom of a mortuary beautician and YouTuber in Imperia.

And then reportages from a convent of enclosed nuns, from the bowels of the earth, from an operating theatre, from the house of a village alien, from a bench where a twenty-two-year-old cyborg sits, from a small sitting room where a master of the Fourth Way drinks his coffee, from a town-hall office where a woman wrestler works, from a conference of Highly Sensitive Persons, and from the beaches where a pensioner goes hunting for messages in bottles.

The volume also carries a photographic reportage that took three years to make.