Takes place between August 15 and August 19, 1927

“We know what year it is, don't we?”

– Mrs. Haggerty speaking to her dog

 

Someone opens fire on August 15, the day of Ferragosto and the Virgin's Assumption

 

“Eight bones has the carpus, five the metacarpus, fourteen the phlanges, all in all, all in all, twenty-seven all in all. Abracadabra.”

– Donald Arlington

“The city… as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead.”

– Dr. James Xavier

Three people must decide what to do on August 13, 1961, the day the Berlin Wall goes up.

 

– You know, I take pictures, photographs, but I never really thought in black and white before I saw our rushes. Do you know what I mean? You can see the shape of things.   – Life is in colour, but black and white is more realistic.