In front of the window

The world is a stage. And people play their parts as best as they can: In the thirty stories of this book, Florian, Raphaela, Jasmin, Antonio, Fabienne, and others appear time and again. They stay or leave. They wait or take action. They search or give up. There are intersections of life paths, surprising twists, and fatal events. A couple argues on the tram. Children draw chalk monsters on the sidewalk. A boy writes everything backward. A retiree talks to an invisible friend. A Catalan painter sets out to find his father. An elderly lady misses her lover from long ago. An outing ends in nothingness. A teenager flirts in cyberspace. A musician gets lost in a strip club. A house slowly sinks into the ground. A Christmas celebration threatens to go awry... And the tram keeps moving.