Introduction

A Preview

"You're standing in front of a Roman ruin. Columns, a dome, weeping women carved in stone. It looks like it's been here for a thousand years. It hasn't. A five-foot-tall architect built it out of plaster and burlap in nineteen fifteen, and he designed it to fall apart. That's the kind of city this is."

Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.