The story of three friends who cling to each other as they search for themselves—Alberto, Stefano and Chiara, friends and lovers at university. A few short years later, a once seemingly bright future has gone belly up. Alberto becomes addicted to drugs, Stefano is unemployed and aimless, and Chiara’s modelling ambitions fizzle out. Their group breaks and mends time and again; the energy falters, then flows once more…spanning university life in Padua, glamorous Milan, and cinematic Rome. The power of their friendship is a remnant of the best years of their lives, and a shelter from a dark place that is so ‘far from everything.’ This is a novel about youth and anger, tenderness and indifference, and about the search for identity.
