A human heart in the hands of a patron dining in the White Nights cafe; children swinging from the trees in the grounds of a local church; a body found by the river during a torrential downpour; a belligerent battle axe sails off to meet her first husband but her second still wants to be buried with her, despite his years of torrid affairs and the town banning her from ever being buried in its grounds; bullets in the garden in a random game of William Tell but who can say who is buried beneath the small wooden cross? A house can only give away so many secrets, most remain left to providence.
With so many stories to tell, it should be a normal day in Burningtree for local journalist Jake Boom. Following a run-in with his nemesis, the shady Detective Paul Brothers, he now resorts to selling stories from the church yard along with the flowers from his father Josef's suspiciously overgrown garden. Only when his boat is found burning on the beach by the local police and his girlfiend Mora fails to return home from a trip to Paris, does the spotlight turn on Jake himself and his father... with Brothers waiting to knock at their front door once again.
"The Fall of Levitation" tears down the walls of every story this professional flaneur has investigated, leading to the maxim that every truth does begin and end in the home. It is a story of childhood, of heartbreak, of high comedy and surreal drama.
And like all good stories, it is at the end where this one must begin...