In some places, people would set up stones in the shape of a ship around graves, stone ships to take the dead to the other world. For the living, these ships became places of gathering and ritual. The stories in this collection, fifteen tales of islands literally or metaphorically, in real or imaginary seas, are stone ships in their own way: narratives about people and places that are lost, about their traces that eventually fade away, and about those who remain behind to remember.

Some say that the sea is just a mirror. Aren't the islands nothing but reflections of the stars? the ocean, the sky upside down. That's why, when you are lost at sea, all you need to do is look up at the sky and the stars will show you the way. In the end, someone will have to drain the ocean to retrieve the bodies.