Part I: Insomniac City -- Insomniac City -- Sleep: loss -- Black crow -- O and I -- On becoming a New Yorker -- Subway Lifer -- The summer Michael Jackson dies -- A fisherman on the subway -- A poem written on the stars -- The moving man -- For the skateboarders -- Part II: On being not dead -- The thank-you man -- The same taxi twice -- The weeping man -- On being not dead -- On a typewriter -- At the skateboard park -- A woman who knew her way -- Driving a supermodel -- Lessons from the smoke shop -- A year in trees -- On Father's Day -- Part III: How New York breaks your heart -- My afternoon with Ilona -- His name is Raheem -- A Monet of one's own -- But -- Everything that I don't have -- A pencil sharpener -- Home -- Postscript.

A celebration of what writer and photographer Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late neurologist Oliver Sacks.