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Noel Villalta apparently has everything: love, money, social standing, friends… but despite this he can’t help feeling that something is missing. He can’t find himself. Sick of the way his life is going, he starts to commit seemingly senseless acts, even at risk to his own life. During one of these, Noel suffers a serious motorbike accident and loses his hand and forearm.

Sometimes we do not realise how silly we are until we leave our normal environment. This is what happens to our curious hero, a bird who will undertake the most wonderful journey in the world. The journey from ignorance to wisdom.

Months after discovering her boyfriend's infidelity, Elva is overcome by a deep depression. On the eve of Saint John's day, the night of wishes, she shuts herself up at home to drown her sorrows and reads that her ex is going to get married that weekend. That night an ancient comet will leave a trail of shooting stars in its wake, ready to grant wishes.

The novel describes the last twenty-four hours of Walter Benjamin in the border town of Port-Bou before he committed suicide on 26th September 1940.