All means are sacred which are called for by the inner need. — Wassily Kandinsky In Piranesi, we met the older generation of this port-hopping family, named after their latest place of refuge. Argentina picks up the story in Buenos Aires, where Leo, a university student in 1950, is soon on her way to becoming a renowned architect/industrial designer at the urging of her older cousin Luca. He reappears in Italy in the mid-1970s, visiting Franny and Guillermo, Leo’s parents, also exiled from the plague of dictatorships in South America. Lina, Leo’s Left Coast academic daughter, brings us to the post-pandemic present.