Esteban has not been in the city for a whole year, and he went there only because his wife owed money to Onofrio Estevez, a merchant. More than anything else, he valued the pleasures of a quiet village life; the leisurely worries of a peasant day only gave him strength, and evenings spent telling stories by the fire or next to Encarnacion, his wife, brought great pleasure. However, that morning he had no choice. Encarnacion, without his knowledge, bought a TV set from Onofrio on credit, and now he threatened to take Esteban’s three milk cows for the unpaid money. But when he finally came to Onofrio, he offered him a strange deal at the expense of his debt - he had to kill the jaguar, which had been terrorizing the entire area for a couple of years. And Esteban, although he had not hunted jaguars for a long time, agreed...