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The three themes that make up the title of this book have for the last few years occupied the pages of newspapers and magazines, and been the focus of ethics debates not only by specialists, but also by a wider public interested in the consequences and problems that the advances in science imply for human beings.

When an English boat brings coal for the furnaces, becomes stranded off the Cantabric coast, finally breaking and dumping its load into the sea. The whole village of Algorta, during the night, wakes up to pick the very much needed coal up. Sabas Jauregui is aware that he cannot let such an opportunity go by, and involves his whole family.

The night is huge and structureless. But it is punctuated by our hearts. It's mid-afternoon, the weather is good, father rolls up his shirt sleeves. A dog barks outside, the elm trees rustle, the tap in the bathroom drips. I can hear banging as my brother mucks around in the workshop in the garden. Mama is downstairs running the shop, or rather waiting for the first customer of the afternoon.

Jonas Plum is the name of the candid protagonist of this novel set in the Caribbean in the early nineteenth century. He tells the reader how his uncle and aunt rid themselves of him by putting him on a merchant ship bound for America and how he got lost in the jungle with Professor Clipercuff, who becomes his teacher and companion on his adventures.