Luke was his name because he was Italian, but all his work colleagues called him Luke. They have been Americanized since he reached the "country of all possibilities" 5 years ago. He had gone from poverty in Sicily with his family, and the ship had taken him to New York. Here he had worked as a worker on the construction site and had participated in raising several "skyscrapers" in the great metropolis of the Americans. The end of the 1920s was a real estate boom in New York ... there were tens of skyscrapers, extremely tall. There is a real competition between American businessmen: who is raising the tallest building in the city, but also in the world? Then, for example, the famous Chrysler Building and Empire State Building ...
It was the year of 1930. Luca was working on one of the skyscrapers on the 80th floor. A dizzying view was drawn from above; anyone weaker than the angel would be dizzy looking down. But not Luke and his colleagues who were working at such an incredible height. The man was already accustomed to work hundreds of feet high. In autumn and winter, the cold winds blazed on the face of the Italian, but he resisted in any condition. He simply needed money to support his family.
It was May 27, and the summer was approaching fast. Luca, perched on the 80th floor of the building, had the task of catching screws in a resistance structure. But the grab hit him with the hammer over his fingers. The blow was so strong that Luca screamed of pain. This made him shake off the beam he was in. He was not anchored with any string or other safety ropes, so his destiny was fatal. The immense gravity of the Earth dragged him down like a boulder. The Italian was now in the dead of death. In those moments of life and death, Luke did not even have time to realize too much what was going on. He did not even realize that his death was inevitable! Who would have resisted a fall from 200 meters tall !?
.. And yet, Luca opened his eyes. He was in his bed at home. "Strange!" He thought. "I fell from a height and I had to be dead! What's going on with me? "Luca was alive and unharmed! He had escaped the cruel destiny !? No, it was impossible for a miracle to have occurred. He was looking at his watch. It was 9 o'clock in the morning. He was supposed to go to work at the construction site ... Stuck, get out of the house (a magnetini, right) and head for work. He did not know what was happening to him ... He had a 10-year-old kid with some newspapers in his hand. The kid screamed in his mouth: "Take the Times!" Take "Times"! An Italian immigrant fell yesterday from 200 meters high and died on the spot! Scandal in New York! "
Luke froze ... He knew he was that Italian ... and yet he was not dead, alive! What had happened? Have two parallel universes intertwined? In one Luke was alive and unhurt, the other was dead ... Which universe is the real one?