About to hit 30, Simon moves to New York with plenty of expectations, a few reservations, and little money. With his journalist reputation to elbow his way into the higher circles and his Grindr profile to make the most of his lower aspirations, Simon meets Carlos and Tomas, cohorts in the sweetness of hedonism and the sorrows of emigration. The book follows a shining path of pleasure and perception in a city where the goal is intensity and the endless stimulation sometimes seems too much like loneliness.