Widower Emile Buén got married again even though he was already a pensioner. His new wife turned out to be a very crafty woman. Once she poisoned his cat, to which Buén was very attached, and the cat tore the wife’s parrot’s tail off. Since then they don’t talk and deliberately ignore each other. It’s been going on for many weeks. Yet they keep living together, though there’s no talk of reconciliation…