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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.
Every Thursday, three friends meet up in a bar. One is a film director who always seems to be blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. Another is a novelist who aspires to the maximum freedom possible in terms of his writing as well as in life and has as many different handwriting styles as he does girl-friends.
Abril and Xalaquia have a lot in common. They have both recently turned sixteen. They both want to be the mistresses of their own destinies. And they are both about to see their lives change for ever. They are separated only by time and space: Tenochtitlan in the sixteenth century and Madrid in the twenty-first century.
Poor, sick and almost blind. This is how Benito Pérez Galdós, the Spanish genius of 20th century literature, lived his last years. In spite of everything, he did not lack in affection from his friends, family and neighbours. And, when his eyes needed to rely on other, younger ones in order to continue his literary work and thus survive, she, Carmela Cid, will be by his side. She will be his eyes.
Young Fanya and her grandmother Simone, the healer, find a strange human-like creature named Sharduk lying wounded and unconscious on the beach. Simone recognises him as a spirit of the waters and she and Fanya try to save his life.