Summary

In Chapter 8, Nélida calls Marcos to say his father “had a breakdown” (42). Marcos promises to stop by. Then, after calling Krieg about the meat run, Marcos calls his sister Marisa to tell her about their father. She never visits him, always using her kids as an excuse.

Before leaving for work, Marcos checks on the female. Then he heads to New Dawn Nursing Home, located “in a residential area of gated communities” (43). On his way, he stops at “the abandoned zoo” (43). Doing so “is risky because there are still animals loose” and he could get contaminated (43). He smokes by the lion’s den, thinking of “the time his father brought him here” (44). Memories of all the things he did with his father return, too. He remembers his father’s sadness while watching the lions. Marcos’s mother had died not...