Quince llamadas perdidas

After robbing a pharmacy, a criminal seeks refuge in the house of his grandparents, with whom he has not had contact for years. A fan of model ships witnesses from the balcony how a man assaults his girlfriend. A teenage couple drinks, dances, takes drugs and dreams of a bright future far from Madrid. A gambler leaves his wife and young daughter alone on Christmas Eve to go play slots. An old woman takes stock of her days while the waves of the sea drown her and her daughter, her son-in-law and her grandchildren watch her amused from the beach. A real estate agent is approached on the street by a twin brother he did not know he had. The stories of Fifteen Missed Calls confirm the skill of Rubén Abella to illuminate the great moments of small lives, the crossroads of characters who, trapped in the spider web of their own and others' mistakes, desperately struggle to be happy. Lucid, essential, compassionate and skilfully intertwined, the fifteen stories that make up this book have the echo of the transcendent: they resonate after reading like unanswered rings.