Smith describes a village brought to chaos by two invaders, and the pointless courage that the women showed by confronting them to protect their daughters despite not being able to stop the two men from retaliating and coming back over and over again. It´s said that there´s always a boy that confronts one of the invaders, showing the same kind of pointless courage. In her town, that boy was a fourteen-year-old who was called King Frog because he used to say that the most powerful in the village was a big ugly toad able to scare even the little boy´s father.
