In a remote taberna there are some who say that the poet Manuel Antonio lost his head over a woman dressed in moon-white who had been rescued by a sea captain called Joseph Conrad. The Diario Compostelano of September 9, 1945 diid not run the story about how the owner of the brewery Cervezas Cruceiro tried his first foaming tankard at the age of nine during the Expostion Universelle in Paris. Few people know that in Hyde Park, where today stands the Animals in War Memorial, there was an earlier project for a sculpture honouring the testicles lost by thousands of soldiers during the Colonial Wars. Chains is a novel about novels, a window open to the Atlantic showing us key moments of the coast, from Cornwall to Finisterre. Stories of real battles, mixed with echoes of shipwrecks, tales of horror and impossible typescripts. A marvellous chest that reveals the most priceless of human treasures: the ability to tell stories.