21 quirky tales from the wacky side of laughter and love in the worldwide lunatic asylum. Here, the poor and loveless find solace in crime and the blurry territory of loyalty and optimism. People are so similar and so different, every one of us in our own fashion dancing all the way down to the graveyard.

Bombs go off and life goes on, for some. Happiness is everywhere, relishing in delusions of self-importance, love runs amok or sneaks up on us when almost too late, a woman invents men, space travellers bring culture to Earth. Everyone in these stories is born equal, except for poor folk. The luckiest learn to treasure the liberty to laugh whilst elsewhere others cry.