On one of those typically restless dark evenings in the city, the atmosphere in the bar was calming. The smell of alcohol and wood hung in the air, and soft jazz music played on a stage in the back. There was a buzz of conversation and the clinking of glasses all around, people whose only entertainment was drinking and gambling on such gloomy evenings. In this atmosphere, in the corner at the bar, a man was sitting lazily drinking whiskey and smoking a cigarette, carefully observing the people