Gregoria is the captain of a pirate ship. Both King Carlos III and the Pope have put a price on her head. Aboard her ship in the Caribbean, she recounts her memories to her granddaughter, who is about to marry a viceroy.

Two girls chatting on the phone while they wait for the guests. In the street shots and explosions are heard, until one day the television starts to speak to them, encouraging them to flee.

The "false calm" referred to in the title is Patagonia, an immense cold, ghostly region in which time seems to have come to a permanent halt.

Fiona and Lucas have a secret. It isn't just any old secret but an enormous, gigantic, immense one: the F family (that is to say Fiona and Lucas's family) is part of a witness protection program.

This story recounts half a century in the history of a small city in the north of Spain, from the postwar period in which the protagonist arrives there to work on the railways, up to the present day.

Cat watches the new tenants from the attic's balcony. Through the lighted windows he follows the family's movements, looking for the right moment to conquer them and enter their house.

Having a brother is very annoying! He's like a monkey, always clowning about. Having a sister is a pain in the neck! Everything I do is wrong and she won't let me play the way I want to.

Professor Ueno buys a puppy for his daughter. The relationship between the professor and Hachiko, the dog, soon becomes a special one. Hachiko accompanies him to the station every morning and awaits his return at 5.30 in the afternoon.

When Ángela - blonde and perfect - is too ill to travel to Ireland, her sister, Marina, a specialist in problems and disasters, goes in her place.

The house on the frontier is a bar, a rooming house and a general store next to the French customs post at Puigcerdà. It has belonged to the Grau family since they acquired it at the end of the 19th Century.