Rafael is a poor, mad fisherman who constantly repeats "She gave me the golden fish" or "She gave me the ring. I still have it. She gave the ring back to me." The narrator, a doctor, remembers meeting Rafael when he was a boy and Rafael was already mad. Twelve years later, Rafael is still living in an abandoned boat in the same state. The doctor tries to determine what happened to Rafael by learning his backstory from the villagers. He learns that Rafael's father was killed by a shark and Rafael devoted his life to killing sharks for revenge. Rafael had also been in unrequited love with a woman named Anita who mysteriously disappeared