The work has its own narrative frame, i. e. people in a bar under the sea tell stories to each other. One may imagine the part given to the "marvellous", to the fairy-like genders. But, more than this, Stefano Benni is excellent in both the most crazy humour, based on exaggerations, and in the almost "romantic-like" poetry. This book mixes, in an harmonious way, both sides of this Italian writer. The tales told in the book belong to tender, nice stories (the extraterrester being, visiting Earth) or to funny sketches (the devil in a luxury restaurant). The work has its own narrative frame, i. e. people in a bar under the sea tell stories to each other.