For hundreds of years Catholic Neapolitans have gathered around for la smorfia, a game similar to bingo, where dreams are associated with the numbers 1 to 90. La mamma is 52, but if she is laughing, the number is 9, meaning fertility. The cat is 3, the child is 2, and la vecchia, the old woman, is 89. The lottery spans your whole life. From naked birth to naked death, through hard times and warm summer nights.

René Beekvelt often visited the city of Naples. He wandered around through the narrow streets where there is unlikely chaos. He felt the fear of being robbed, but also intensely enjoyed the sincerity of the Neapolitans and all facets of life taking place so openly.

Smorfia contains 2 perforated printing sheets with 42 bingo cards in total. The sheets are folded and wrapped in a transparent sleeve. The bingo cards show all meanings of the numbers in the game, and the references to the corresponding images by Beekvelt on the front of the cards.