A heated discussion ends on the edge between the logical and the impossible. A woman mistakes the buzzing of an insect for her own pain. A young actor who wants to succeed on television discovers the depth of playing a theater role. These are some of the stories with which Outside is woven; behind them is the leitmotif of an unexpected narrative twist from which the reader will take time to recover.

“Words seem fascinating to me, even if they are too small to explain a universe as big as the one in front of us. It is enough to take a look through the cupola for them to be erased from your palate. So much blackness and cold are a lesson in humility, don't you think so? The best we can do is set up rules that we selfishly call 'universal' in an attempt to encompass constants in the galaxy, but I daresay not everything we think of as absolute is."