In any coffee shop, in any city, a man chooses a table, takes off his raincoat and hat, asks for a double expresso and after a reflective pause begins to narrate the very brief and surprising stories that inhabit these pages. Each one is a paradox, a question that opens before the world and also a clue to complete the task that the man sitting in that lonely cafe has set himself, to give meaning to his life, which is about to end: he wants to create a crossword puzzle out from the word hidden behind each of these stories; micro-stories that in few lines are capable to capture an entire universe or to question the relationship between humans and God, to create unsettling situations that condense the nonsense of the human experience, in order to subvert it later, to turn it around and demonstrate the amazing value of the existence of people that, just like you, reader, are looking for the answer.