A regular guest in Walter Siti's literature, obsession draws a large magnetic field around his stories: the body. With its provocations, its delusions of omnipotence but also with its ability to make itself a myth, the body is the protagonist of this anthology that collects the most beautiful stories signed by the author in the last twenty years. Huge, statuesque, ideal physiques alternate between the pages, taking on from time to time the features of bodyguards, bodybuilders, porn stars, coke-addicted escorts and fake suburban heroes to give voice to a desire that goes to the extreme. And it is on this very line that the adoration for male nudity overrides the erotic drive to aspire to a horizon of absoluteness and cruelty, lack and perfection. It is here that the human touches on the divine and the elsewhere, offering Siti a gateway to line up all the incarnations of a Hercules as everyday as he is mythological; having reached the age when shame is only an ingredient, Siti ultimately tells us about what helped him live by denying life.