This short tale (about 70 pages) is set in a mountain hamlet (that was fully abandoned around 1970) during its last days. The whole story it's about a Wolf that terrorize the inhabitants of the place, killing the cattle and leaving the people without anything to eat: it will take some time for the mountaineers to handle it definitively. At the same time the world is changing around them: many people are migrating towards the city, in search of a better life and with many comfort that were only a dream in those remote places. The younglings are dreaming about working only 8-9 hours a day and then having a paycheck directly given to them insteam of working an harsh and cruel land for crumbles.

They still don't know it, but as the Wolf will be the last hunted in those places, they will be the last inhabitants of those forests too

This was somehow very bittersweet to read, but very insightful also: the State was ready to buy their land for nearly nothing "luring" them with the dream of a better life. And those times now are gone, those places crumbling down, that kind of strict society long gone. Today, in the most interconnected world possible, nobody knows anybody... and that's quite strange.