The protagonist of the story, Iona Potapav is in deep grief, the reason being his son's unexpected demise. As a general human characteristic, he also wants to talk about the hardship that he is facing, what all he felt through the entire event, but he's unable to find someone to vent out. He wants to share the flood of emotions that he has been storing inside him. But the problem resides in the fact that the people that he's surrounded by, are either in a hurry being the passengers wanting to reach the destination or are simply not interested in giving an ear to him. So whenever Iona starts sharing about the death of his son, he's ignored by everyone. Finding no other resort, Iona shared everything to his horse.