Since I moved to Santa Monica, California, I've been fascinated by its residential neighborhoods and their flip side, the back alleys. Hidden from the uniformity of the streets, there are clues, objects, messages that tell us who we are, what we believe in and how different we are from each other. I've been working every day for the past year on an on-going project about our society and its contradictions in Santa Monica, that is becoming also the story of relevant ulterior clues and signals of the transitory effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on a very affluent community in southern California