CHAPTER 5
Absorbed in her work, Melanie had not noticed a small box that had appeared for a few seconds in the right corner of the video. She continued to work, briskly typing on the keyboard, until with a quick check on the monitor she saw that the program had stopped. Cursing, she tried to resolve the situation, but to no avail: then her attention was attracted to the flashing black square, which seemed to wink at her. She opened it angrily with a click, and suddenly the screen changed: a colorful painting appeared with a landscape in the background. In the foreground there was a glass, perhaps a glass of champagne, from which a bubbly cloud was emerging.
Melanie stood looking at it in amazement, not knowing what to do, before realizing that she did not know how to behave in front of t
