Over the past three decades Crewdson has been fleshing out a portrait of middle America, an America gazing wide-eyed at the glimmers of a fading dream. His cinematographically staged pictures have pieced together the fragments of a twilight world tinged with numbness.

The book brings together three bodies of work made between 2012 and 2022. Envisaged as a trilogy, they give a unique insight into a decade of creation and a comprehensive view of the universe that has made him one of the major figures of the medium. The trilogy is introduced by Fireflies, a pivotal series if one is to grasp the intimate undercurrents in his work.