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Have you ever imagined a parallel world? Owen Brick woke up and found that everything around him was strange; August Brill stayed with the night, his broken leg could not move, and the pain was gnawing at his nerves. Following the "New York Trilogy", Paul Auster's elegy to New York.

Retired insurance broker Nathan Glass was terminally ill and alone. He just wanted to find a quiet place to "end this miserable and absurd life." Someone suggested Brooklyn, which was his childhood hometown. Nathan meets his long-lost nephew Tom Wood, and together with the equally lost Tom, he gets acquainted with all kinds of little people in Park Slope: a flamboyant and mysterious second-hand bookstore owner, a Jamaican drag queen, a charming restaurant waitress... Nathan gradually falls in love with the generous vitality of Brooklyn, and the sudden intrusion of Tom's niece, the quirky nine-year-old girl Lucy, completely changes the lives of the two men. In the intertwining of fate, Nathan was also able to repair his soul, face the past, and start over. The moon always rises over the Brooklyn Bridge, and the shadows of Hawthorne, Poe and Thoreau still shelter the frustrated and dreamers everywhere. Auster elegantly and affectionately depicts this town as the ultimate refuge of the human spirit.