After burning through his first six-pack of the night, The Narrator decides it's time to take back some semblance of control in his life. The next morning, he breaks into his ex-wife's house and steals the taxidermied badger he'd given to her as a token of their marriage.
With the badger back in his control, The Narrator returns to The Lucky Clover, his old haunt in the town of Paradise, a reservation bordertown in western South Dakota...