In this fifth "Blacksad" album, it takes place near the ending of the 1950s. Chad (a lion), a writer, travels the road as a vagrant with his on-again-off-again friend Abraham (a bison), a poet, who appears earlier in the Blacksad story, then referred to simply as "Greenberg". Abe is extremely volatile towards Chad and his interactions with him lean from harassing to almost sociopathic bullying. Abe views his vocation more romantically than Chad, who sees writing as his career and a means to money, and Abe accuses Chad of not having a true passion like he does. Abe takes his collection of poems he was about to publish and burns them, and encourages the appalled Chad to do the same with his next novel's manuscript, to give it a "proper ending".