When Billy Parham crosses into Mexico he does so with the best of intentions, but before he can decide to save the wolf he must decide to disobey his father. It is such disobedience that frees us to become some struggling larvae rising to new life, only to die – and our death – usually goes unnoticed, usually not considered, just flecks on the spinning wheel of time. But for a moment you and Billy rejected your father, and in that moment you never loved your father more, you never loved anything better, though it is a love that kills.