It has happened to us all at some point: we hear a phrase, and the words, as if they were a powerful, silent laser, penetrate our veins, they get stuck in our blood, and with it they circulate incessantly around our body. Or perhaps, instead of a phrase it is a person who, although we have only just met them, finds a parking space in our heart. Or we are presented with unexpected situations like, for example, holding a degree in Fine Art and having to make a living working at a petrol station. Such are the seven stories which make up this volume: seven powerful flashes which, from the unsettling setting of a petrol station, will move everything which is alive within us