When Glyn Maxwell steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001, he is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular. It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London"s "Black Saturday," the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II. Joe is a survivor of the bombing. His story brings his lost neighbors back in order to share the terror and the peculiar beauty blooming in the chaos of their last days. Raul, the bartender, interrupts to brag about New York"s wonders -- just as we know the city faces its own catastrophic moment in history.