The earlier cancer is diagnosed, the better the prognosis for patients. All professionals fighting the disease are working with this idea in mind, seeking new strategies to improve early detection and begin treating patients at earlier stages, when survival rates are higher. People suspected of having prostate cancer or a neuroendocrine tumor must undergo a test called positron emission tomography (PET/CT), which ultimately determines whether or not there is any trace of the disease. These tests require a very special type of medication prepared with a radioactive isotope, and until now, all Catalan hospitals had to purchase these drugs from external laboratories. Since September, however, the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital has become the first center in Catalonia to have full autonomy in this field after incorporating a generator for this isotope, called gallium-68.

It's Monday and Matthew and Aidan, aged six and eight respectively, are at the Sant Pau pediatric day hospital. While receiving treatment, each one entertains himself as best he can: the former with a tablet and the latter with a mobile phone. Suddenly, Laura and Gisela, professional storytellers, burst into the room in their lab coats, tights, and colorful flip-flops, and their cart (a customized wheelchair) full of books, and ask the children if they'd like to hear a story. They both answer affirmatively. For Matthew, this is his first contact with the children. Tales that healFrom that moment on, the two little ones stop being just patients and become what they are: children who let themselves be carried away by the magic of a story, who are infected by the emotion with which the storytellers tell the adventures of the Pirate Malapata and Bunny Ralph, who laugh and interact with each other—when they previously didn't even know each other—while imagining, with the help of the narrators, that they are aboard a pirate ship.