Their moment was of the brief, shining sort when everything seemed possible. The gold rush of the 1980s, when the best and the brightest vied with the worst and most craven for riches, fame and the love of beautiful people. With all the force and cunning enterprise of Manhattan itself, Brightness Falls captures lives-in-the-making men and women confronting their sudden middle-age with wit and low behaviour, fear and confusion, and occasionally merely honesty and decency. None of them, ever, would be the same again...