This collection of 17 stories is set in Catalonia, in environments ranging from the coast to the interior, from the Ebro Delta to the Pyrenees via the county of Terra Alta, from the few remaining industrial colonies to the Barcelona of the Olympics, in a landscape described over time, from the 1970s to the present day. In these stories the reader will meet people with no biography—factory workers, pyromaniacs, quacks, lightning-hunters—who push realism into the realms of the unreal.