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Nuria's teacher has given her a box of silkworms to look after. Little by little she learns what they are like, what they eat and how to look after them so that they grow and are healthy, as well as the process by which silk cocoons are made and how the worms become butterflies.
The China Seas, 1805. Travelling on a vessel about to be shipwrecked is Xavier Balmis, a visionary Spanish doctor obsessed with a mission that many consider madness: to take the vaccine for smallpox to China inside the bodies of orphaned children and so halt the advance of the most fatal disease known to man.
One of the recurring reasons couples give for splitting up is a lack of personal space. We all need a secret, emotional and creative garden where we can take refuge without running away, a sacred corner where we can find ourselves again, choose freely, and reinvent ourselves. A room of our own in which to desire without being judged, which is accessed through intimacy.
A series of individuals from various countries meet at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919: some Spaniards - a journalist nicknamed "Carte Blanche", a strange freelance reporter, a speculator and his lover - and others from the powers involved in the conflict.
In a rural Galician village the local miller, a resentful widower, observes how the worst nightmares of Galician oral tradition are becoming reality around him. Dismembered animals are found, the harvest is spoiled, the legendary Santa Compaña figures are seen, and villagers are attacked by a werewolf.
The Minidead are kids, but they are very different from you: they are kids from beyond the grave. They are waiting for their parents in "The Other Neighbourhood", a staging post where they can do whatever they like. All this changes though when Catacrak arrives - he wants to return to the land of the living. The Minidead will need to work hard to help him.
When Lorenzo and Natalia meet, the chemistry between them the means that they cannot help starting a secret relationship because they are both married. Lorenzo has two brothers, Nicolás who is a police officer and Gabriel who works in IT and seems to be mixed up in dodgy dealings. Natalia is a heart-stopper of a woman and has only been married to Gabriel for a few weeks.
Jonás swims every day, while on the other side of the glass some slim shadows appear to be observing him. Swimming is Jonás' link with his former life: he hardly sees his parents and he has no other family. One morning his fatheer tells him that his mother has disappeared: she hasn't answered the telephone for two months, and he has been to her flat to find it empty.
On returning from Burkina Faso, Patricia shows her writer friend her travel snaps. The picture of two children who silently approach tourists with a tomato can round their necks and a smile on their faces spurs the writer on to create a story with one of them, Essein, as the main character.
Bruno's life changes when he finds a top hat with a note inside: "They are waiting for you in New York". He discovers that he has an unusual talent and understands why he has always felt out of place.