NetherlandIn early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of 9 11, the powercut and the Iraq war. Those years were difficult for Hans his English wife Rachel left with their son after the attack, as if that event revealed the cracks and silences in