This book is about disappearances and those who have disappeared. It also includes meetings with people you didn’t expect to see, letters that reached their addressees, travels, detectives, desert wind, and dry wells—all in the same place. The book contains 48 stories. Each of them is an attempt to look at the fabric of events in different threads and combinations. Disappearances are one of the elements of this fabric—perhaps the one that gives a more complete picture of it.