The book was written in the context of the SARS outbreak in Vietnam, a series of hospitals were quarantined. Thanks to medical institutions's effort, doctors and medical staff's devotion, even life-sacrificing, the SARC epidemic was controlled soon after. Among them, Carlo Urbani, an Italian expert on communicable diseases of the World Health Organization based in Hanoi. Dr. Carlo and his colleagues rushed into the disease control campaign, where he Dr. Urbani was the first WHO officer to identify the outbreak of this new disease. The disease originated in the Far East region of East Asian countries, then to Southern China and to Vietnam in late 2002 and early 2003, resulting in a total of 8,096 people infected and 774 deaths. Unluckily, Dr. Carlo Urbani, himself became infected with the virus and died on March 29, 2003 at a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.

Also during this time, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University had a partnership with universities from the Republic of Italy, especially the University of Sassari. In 2005, in honor of Dr. Carlo Urbani, the University of Medicine and Pharmacy developed the Carlo Urbani Center project to promote the capacity of health care facilities as well as to train health workers in Central Vietnam under the support of the Italian Government, University of Sassari and many other universities. In 2012, the University welcomed Ambassador Lorenzo Angeloni to the inauguration of the intensive care unit and the third-level biosafety laboratory, which directly serves diagnostics, prevention and treatment. Inspired by the work of Dr. Carlo Urbani, the former Ambassador Lorenzo Angeloni wrote "The Quarantine".

"The Quarantine" takes readers inside the Franco-Vietnamese Hospital, living in "the quarantine" together with human fates full of anxiety in Hanoi during those horrific days, and then to other areas, other fates, other matters. Readers would finally discover that every person is subjected to isolation, that something unexpected will happen, that in every person there is a good flame under the ashes - errors getting thicker and thicker on the life path, and that the flame waits for a moment, a context to flare up. This was the second novel of the author translated into Vietnamese. The novel was translated by Tran Hong Hanh, published by the Labor Publishing House and Thai Ha Books.