When the fish went off flying is a story that explores, through a subtle language and powerful images, the pain of loss. Among the clouds and the mountains, and their whiteness, the boy from this tale will first lose his father, then his dog, and finally his brother. The images that these departures leave will conform a story in which nothing is a surplus; each sentence and each illustration guide the reader without drama. This is a precise and overwhelming work, in which the literary and graphic quality manifests from page one.