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

 

“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 need more than luck in Shanghai.”

– Elsa Bannister

 

“Life has its tricks. Its oddities.”

– Jackie Demaistre