Conventional narrative promises are seldom delivered upon—if there's a Chekhovian gun on the wall in the first act, it may be fired in the third, but it will probably (to take an example from The Last Lover) be fired into the leg of its mysterious owner by his cook, at the owner's own never-explained behest, as he approaches his house across vast grasslands, riding a leopard.
Majirani wanadai kwamba Mama Kaela na mumewe Paulo, walipofika kijijini hapo, walipokewa na kuishi maisha ya kawaida, lakini baadaye mama huyo alianza kuwa na uhusiano wa kimapenzi na Arcado, ambaye naye alilazimika kuachana na mkewe wa ndoa anayefahamika kijijini hapo kwa jina la Mama Pere.