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Can death be a form of art? Comisario Ruiz is on leave from the force. It's the festival in the capital and everybody is having fun by the Manzanares river. But the discovery of animal corpses killed by ritualistic methods is the first sign of an anomaly that will soon lead to another morbid event, the apparently ritual execution of a young art student at one of the river's weirs.

Lu Shzu is a little girl who works on the assembly line in a factory. She leads a tranquil life until she discovers that the factory produces toys and she wants to have a doll of her own. She begins to collect pieces, but she is discovered and dismissed. However, her grandmother will manage to give her one as a gift.

Mr. Velázquez has a big problem: the King and the Queen of Spain have asked him to paint a portrait of princess Margarita, but she is so restless that it is difficult to make her pose. But Mr. Velázquez has a funny idea to get her stand like a block of wood while he paints the portrait.  

Using the metaphor of a tsunami, symbol of potential destruction, the author draws together the most characteristic themes of her complex and refined poetic palate: The sense of loss, memory and the passing of time, the need to overcome confusion and horror to recognize that “landscape after devastation”.