So what if they stick 30 stories in your courtyard? So what if they kick out “the poor” and replace them with “the rich”? So what if finding a home has become worse than Mission: Impossible? Milan is still Milan! It’s still the coolest city on the face of the earth, with its skyscrapers, its working people, and its productive people. Make sure everything goes your way, or else get out of here! A fierce and razor-sharp counter-narrative about Milan—a city of power, speculation, and displaced lives. It all starts in an elevator. Or rather, on a staircase so narrow it doesn’t even allow room for a stretcher. In an old apartment building in Porta Venezia, where bathrooms have been shared for decades, a conflict erupts: on one side, the ladies in their nineties on the lower floors; on the other, the elevator operators’ gang and the elite on the upper floors, already focused on the B&B business. A small war on the landing that, step by step, becomes the broader story of a city. When the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office launches its investigations in the summer of 2025, the people of Milan discover a system of power and injustice they had already sensed: skyscrapers sprouting up everywhere, even in courtyards, and a new ruling class made up of financial sharks and consumers of fleeting events. They speak a newspeak crammed with Anglo-Saxon terms that immediately colonizes politics: the mayor is a “city manager,” the architect is a “starchitect,” exploitation is “inequalities,” and the slaves are “riders.” In recent years, nearly half a million Milanese have left the city. Those who remain are stunned to find prices on par with Zurich, while wages are stuck at the levels of Italy twenty years ago. A furious, raw, and fast-paced pamphlet—like an old punk song—that is also a love letter to a city that has always been welcoming and full of possibilities.