The Moscardó family decide to spend a weekend at the coast to leave behind their humdrum lives which are ever more dominated by the economic crisis, loneliness and lack of communication. At the Solymar hotel, they come up against the misfortunes and conflicts of the other guests and employees, over all whose lives tragedy looms, inexorable and merciless. In this extraordinary novel - choral, forceful and poetic - the author offers us a multifaceted image of a fragmented world in which multiple perspectives seem condemned to collide.