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"When you lose your dreams, you become a slave to your nightmares. That's why the world needs people... who aren't afraid to dream." Rebeca's parents have disappeared in mysterious circumstances and she has to go and live with her grandfather, Professor Balvatin, a man she hasn't seen since she was very little.

In a cosmopolitain and prosperous Western city, a strange phenomenon occurs which seems initially to be nothing more than an irritant but which quickly comes to represent a more insidious threat, capable of overturning the most intimate convictions of the citizens.

This story begins at a lake flooded by the sea, continues across a country in the grip of the war and spreads across a maze of trenches on the banks of a river that acts as the frontier with a bad dream. It's the story of a mystery; of the Scottish soldier Elgin Gairloch, recruited to fight in France, and how he returned home following the last battle of the Somme in the spring of 1918.

A visitor appears every night in the bedroom of the family’s youngest member and makes him tremble, but is it from fear or excitement? Enthralling to the last page, del Mazo’s books and their illustrations by Natalia Colombo take on the fear that young children have of the unknown, helping them to deal with situations they cannot control and to face up to their fears.