From the early 1980s, when Asnin began studying photography, the life of his uncle fired his imagination. Charlie and his five children live together in Bushwick, Brooklyn; fragile, depressed and emotionally unstable, unable to work or even to leave his apartment, Charlie Henschke is a kind of human wreck. The book is an exceptional visual document of texts, pictures and documents forming a diary of his life: his struggle with mental illness, isolation, poverty, his family ties. Asnin uses photography for a journey that becomes almost an obsession, a will to understand truths, even unpleasant ones, about his uncle and his family. The complex layout links words, private documents and images; the texts come from long recorded conversations. "After thirty years this book is life, naked and indecipherable. A story of broken dreams, of finding flakes of happiness in the most oppressed life, of obsessions and grief, of the relationship between two men and two generations."