Marta Ferrer, a middle-aged married women with two children who works in Barcelona’s treasury department, and whose life has been changed in the last few months by her fight against breast cancer.

"People think that a full life is when many things happen to you, but I believe that living a full life is when you know what you're missing", 1993.

"If only a Meerkat like me hadn't read that advertisement asking for pairs of animals of all species to undertake a voyage to a new world!

I am Don Pedro Blanco, slaver. A mad man. Giant or monster. The White Mongo. The Great Magician-Mirror-Sun. The King of Gallinas. The Pirate. The Father. The Brother.

A man is found hanged in a pinewood on the outskirts of Madrid, his eyes torn out by the roots.

"This is a chronicle about the extinction of a bloodline but also about the destruction of a way of life. The cruelty to which all of us without a second chance in life have been condemned." Fire a rifle and the mountain trembles.

The brutality and vitality of a world which we know nothing about is presented, in its rawest form, in four stories set in four African countries: Namibia, Congo, Senegal and Rwanda.

Andrés lives in City, an unnamed metropolis where every day a never-ending flow of suicidal people choose to put an end to their lives.

In a small neighbourhood in the middle of the city live five women who buy flowers.

"Women who read" could just as well have been entitled women who sang, women who painted, women who played piano or women who danced.