Dispossessed by his father and to make sure penniless survival Comprés Daniel reaches for a sugar mill in search of employment. As a new winemaker becomes a witness and, soon after, reluctant accomplice extremes of greed and the ruthless exploitation of the labor of the workers of the cane, all in the name of the perennial search over, the collection of merchandise on unofficially governs business accounting. Published in 1939, still has validity as Over silent cry for claim of human rights. His exemplary weaving of literary values and Marxist and nationalist ideas, make the work one of the pillars of Dominican literature of the twentieth century.