Twenty-seven short stories written during different periods of Luis Sepúlveda's life, combining elements found scattered throughout all his novels: "The Last Fakir", "Rolandbar", "If You Have Nowhere to Cry", "About Something I Lost on a Train", "Change of Course", "A House in Santiago", "Answering Machine", "My Favorite Things", "About Yesterday's Newspaper", "A Man Selling Sweets in the Park", "A Car Has Stopped in the Night", "On National Anniversaries", "Precise Inconsistency", "Short Biography of a Great Man", "Tola in Ten Acts", "The Librarian", "Coffee", "Someone Upstairs Waiting for Gardenias", "A Love Story Without Words", "Romantic Date in a War-torn Country", "Ways to See the Sea", "On the Other Side of Time", "Another Door to the Sky".