This book contains 16 sessions of a workshop under the direction of García Márquez. It is divided into sixteen sections, an argument, a concluding chapter writter by Ruy Guerra and Claudio McDowell, and data of the participants. The members of the workshop were: Doc Comparato, Eliseo Alberto Diego, Andrés Agudelo, Iván Argüello, Susana Cato, Luis Alberto Lamata, Manuel Gómez Díaz and Arturo Villaseñor. Edgar Soberón is the editor of the sections and Gabriel García Márquez the director.
Writers' workshop for movie scripts led by Gabriel García Márquez. The participants included Marcos R. López (Argentina), Manuel F. Nieto Arango (Colombia), Denis Pinho França de Almeida (Brasil), Elid Pineda Arzate (México), Cecilia Pérez Grovas (México), Victoria Eva Solanas (Argentina), Gloria Saló Benito (España), María del Socorro González Ocampo (Colombia), Reinaldo Montero Ramírez (Cuba), y Roberto Gervitz (Brasil).
"A collection of chronicles and news articles that García Márquez sent beyond the Atlantic from Geneva, Rome, Venice, Vienna, London, Paris, and other places."