The failures of old age are at the centre of this new collection of twenty stories by Sergi Pámies. Individual and collective fatalities, the capacity to survive them and the varied emotions they cause are described with the obsessive style that characterised the author's previous books and which has engaged thousands of readers. For the first time, Pámies creates fiction out of autobiographical material, portraying the existential difficulties of a group of characters who, with a determination as absurd as it is heroic, pedal persistently without going anywhere.