A story set one thousand years into the future, when a small group of people who live on an island have become the last stronghold of mankind. However, they are besieged by a force that seems to have taken them to the brink of extinction and that is both a threat and a lifeline. Alexandria. The relationship between machines and humans, the clash between the individual and the collective and the tension between an unstable present and an unknown future are topics you will find in this third and final instalment (and the first translated into Catalan) of the Buckmaster trilogy, which started with the award-winning The Wake.