"You are an ungrateful bitch. I don't want to know anything about you, no messages, and let's not meet again." This is the blunt message that reaches Rita eight years after meeting Ramon at a town festival in the Ebro Lands. They have an intermittent relationship that lasts for years and destroys them. They are fully aware of it, but they go back to it time and time again. This is the core of All the points and aside (Empúries), the latest novel by Marta Sans (Alcanar, 1988).