The stories of this group are dominated by a state of fear of loss. Happiness is obscured by imagined obsessions, realistic events, and pending desires that do not go their normal course. The heroines of the stories search for small pleasures and pay attention to the elusive game of time that has robbed them of the most beautiful times. Freedom in its broad sense also constitutes a state of questioning in the lives of the heroes, as they are prisoners of themselves even if they are free.