Eight powerful stories about characters confronted with the unknown and with their own fears... In one of these stories, the protagonist explains her encounter with an albatross, that solitary bird with majestic flight to which Baudelaire dedicated a poem. She and her father come across what they call "lost albatross" or "wandering albatross", birds that, due to overexertion due to lack of wind, go crazy, become disoriented and end up reaching places...