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Six stories in which the past returns to unsettle lives that seemed to have moved beyond it. Family memory, identity and experience pull in different directions.

After their mother’s death, a woman and her brother clear out the family flat. Over twelve days, the practical work of deciding what to keep and what to give away becomes a way of living through grief.

A young philosophy student enters a relationship with Simona in which desire, commands and writing unsettle what he believes he knows about himself and other people.

Iker Parrasco, an ONCE lottery seller with severely impaired vision, makes his way through a city that calls itself smart and inclusive. The distance between recorded accessibility and life on the street shapes every decision.

A forensic analyst receives a recording that seems to carry the breathing of a dead colleague. Tracking its voice brings her into conflict with a system that demands people conform to its records.

In a community where silence can be kept in jars, the agreements that sustain shared life begin to follow a logic of their own. How much can anyone decide within an order that precedes them?

Four people arrive at a union hotel where only three places are on record. The discrepancy opens an investigation into a place that can administer not only rooms, but facts, memories and its guests’ identities.

An untitled grey book enters Bruno’s life. Pain, the reports that try to describe it, and his relationships with Laura and Clara open a story about the body, identity and what passes from one generation to the next.

What does a society need in order to recognise that it has been wrong? A political history of dissent, warnings and the institutions that make revision possible.

A decision may remain open to formal review when its consequences can no longer be undone. How long do we actually retain control?

Changing a conviction can feel like a threat to the person who holds it. An essay on knowledge, identity and the transformations that make continuity possible.

A former football star, hunted across Camp Nou, carries a memory device that others want back. Behind the spectacle, corruption turns the game’s most passionate loyalties into instruments of power.

A club on the brink of collapse. A financial report that promises independence. A city where football is the means to negotiate far more than results.

Three fictions about the ways a community, a building and an archive can come to determine what exists—and what is left outside.