This is a novel about love and friendship, betrayal and violence, grief from the loss of a loved one and loneliness, about the transience of time and the properties of our memory. A certain writer is trying to recreate the last day of Samuel's life - a young man who suddenly died (committed suicide?) In a car accident. In the stories of friends, girlfriend, relatives and neighbors, different facets of his personality loom: a loving grandson, a reluctant bureaucrat, a devoted friend, a ridiculous poser, in love, ready to do anything for his girlfriend...