Published for the first time in 1988, Jesús Moncada consolidated a personal and m itic universe around Mequinensa, the old town on the banks of the Ebro sunk under the waters of the Riba-Roja reservoir, which in its time ser an important centre of a mining basin and intense river traffic. With historical precision and vivid language, the author recalls the history of the last hundred years of a people condemned to disappearance through the lives and memories of different characters.