Smoke on earth is a story about non-history. Humanity has imagined the end of the world happen in fantastic biblical apocalypse; invasions of extraterrestrial civilizations possessing high technology; wars, nuclear disasters or viral and unstoppable pests produced by ourselves, etc., etc ... The list is long.
In all these scenarios, the protagonists of the Western world are always the protagonists. It is civilization that is at stake.
But here, in The Smoke on Earth, this is not the case: in a town without a name in the middle of the vast Amazon rainforest, three insignificant men will contemplate the strangest eschatological transfigurations, and will witness, as anonymous actors, an end of the world in where humanity will lack absolute prominence; a book that tells us that the great stories were never about us humans.