Maria Diaz, a young intellectual, originally from Ecuador, teaches math in Miami and is intrigued by sleep. Is it a waste? Over 60 years, we will sleep for a staggering 20 years. Does this waste have redeeming value? She is determined to find it. 



Then, her sleeping mind opens its doors. She finds her subconscious world and meets her inner self: her id, libido, ego, muses, and oracles, who come alive as colorful human characters, mostly young women. They vie for control of Maria’s destiny. Night after night they have a ball, sometimes fighting. Her life toggles delightfully between her conscious and subconscious world. 



Unfortunately, as with all humans, she cannot remember her parallel world the next day. Dreams evaporate with the light of day. She struggles with this for ten years, keeping logs of the few brief dreams she remembers, analyzing them until she finally connects the dots and steals her forbidden dreams from the kingdom of oblivion. 



The result is this novel. Set in 1999, it captures the zeitgeist of the end of an era and the blooming of our new millennium.