Cavaleri explores the possibilities of biography and writing. He presents us with fragments that tell the story of a life in a way that can only be experienced directly: "A reflection on a moment of my experience, even looking at a long story from the years of my life, is a fragment (or fragments, fragmentary) at most. A written account of life is always only a fragment. A written phenomenology of perception is never more than a fragmented reflection of what I experience. Life, living it, seeing it and being struck by it is the closest maybe we get to a full account."