The narrator of the story – an unnamed boy of twelve years old – tells about his time in junior high school. Or better to say about the time beyond the school when he and his friend Sergio went to the arroyo, were spending time there by shouting out the things they were forbidden to say at school.
Once they have found a cannonball but did not know what it was. They wanted to take it home, but the narrator knew for sure that his mother would make him throw the thing away. So they decided to bury it. A week later when they came to dig out the strange object they could not find it. They never told about an accident to anyone, but between them two it was an object of conversation all the time.
The narrator describes another instance from their lives when he and Sergio decided to go over the hill and spend their few days. His mother was not against and even helped them to gather necessary things and food. They two started and soon found a perfect place to have a meal. It was green, very bright and the narrator compared it to the Oz country, so bright the green grass was. He and Sergio had a meal there and considered the place paradise. But there appeared two men with strange sticks and shouted on them. Later they found out that those men were golfers and the place was a golf field.
The meaning for all the instances from the lives of Sergio and the narrator is in their friendship, and the two understood different things the same way.
