The stories of Coelho slide on the side of chance, betraying the deep currents that suddenly take over the quiet surfaces. The lives of their characters are boards that lose the daily logic: in them are possible encounters with writers buried in oblivion, that a son confronts the man who has decided to copy his dead father, and that a woman loves a man for the wrong reasons; Men are lost by following dark instincts and surrender to the nonsense of desire.