With an unpublished excerpt of the poem in dialect «In Greina – Cunfin a ragord» by Meinrado Devittori, wich describes the meeting of a border guard with a poacher, starts the story which is the leitmotiv in the vicissitudes of three generations and the changes brought to the practice of poaching in a Ticino valley. A world where the active and brutal passion for wildlife blends with the desire for freedom.