From a tender age, Fernando Pessoa will face the experience of loss in its most painful forms, and the theme of death will equally concern the orthonymous author and his heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, Bernardo Soares, Barão de Teive.

In these recently unpublished stories signed by Fernando Pessoa, some of which rival his poetry in lyricism and others reflect his sociological, psychological, and generally epistemological concerns, suicides are foretold and depicted, murders are committed, justified and unjustified deaths occur, while always in the background, the incomparable voice of the poet is heard, defining:

Death is the turn of the road,
Dying is not being seen anymore.