Description

Middle-December 2008. Obama has simply been chosen; brand New York is happy, particularly Harlem. On a cold evening a couple weeks later, investigator Artie Cohen gets a delayed call from his ex-girlfriend, Lily Hanes, pleading for his support. Lily has been residing at the Louis Armstrong Flats, among Harlem's excellent structures, while focusing on Obama's strategy; today her Russian friend, Marianna Simonova, has died, and Lily wants Artie's Russian contacts and worries she's at fault.