An Event

A farmer and his grandson set off to a fair to sell their horse in this dark tale from the pen of the great Russian short story writer Anton Chekhov. Going through the forest they are chased by a hungry wolf, but they safely make the ferry that is to take them into town. On the boat, the captain tells them to beware of a gamekeeper and his family. The pair sell their horse and set out for home again, but in the forest they are chased by the gamekeeper. Exhausted, the old farmer gives the profits from the horse sale to his grandson and tells him to flee. The boy does, right into the cabin of the gamekeeper.