A relaxed cocktail party at a private home on the West Coast of the United States. A beautiful, drunk girl is swallowed by the ocean waves. A strange man jumps into the sea and saves her. The man is not available, he does not have his heart set on the girl, and in the course of time – he will not fall in love with her. So what? Alfred Hayes is a writer of the most unique kind: he manages to elevate a story to maximum height through unprecedented emotional and syntactic leverage, without using fireworks, explosions, and other special effects. With a deep understanding of the human soul and relationships, and their clear and direct presentation, he manages to captivate readers with a simple human story as if it were a dizzying thriller. Anyone who fell in love with "In Love" ("Nine Souls", 2016) will recognize in "The World Will Still Know My Face" exactly the same map of the soul, the fruit of Alfred Hayes' pencil system: the result of an emotional process, which does one thing - manages to touch the truth, and then sinks in, remaining forever.