 The puppet-master, Don Benjamin, has been reduced to madness because of the environment of terror he has been made to endure.Readers are given one more glimpse of the maddening state of life under a dictatorship.The epilogue concludes with a more hopeful tone, which is seen through a "mother's voice telling her rosary" which concludes with the Kyrie eleison; the call for the "Lord to have Mercy".