If you looked towards the New York sky on the evening of June 21, 2010, you might have seen hundreds, into thousands of white balloons drifting, falling and rising through the heavens overlooking Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. The balloons slowly flooded the landscape, carrying the keys to a parallel universe. The balloons were discovered landing, bouncing through the streets, in the subway ripped to pieces or drifting into unknown corners of the city.

Notes were attached with these words: You will go to Epistrophy on Mott St, between Noon and Six, from the Twenty-third through the Twenty-fifth day of June 2010. Search and select one of these three books. Inside you will find instructions for your journey: The Odyssey by Homer, The Decameron by Boccaccio, and The Prophet by Khalil Gibran