A Japanese entomologist who maintains a peculiar relationship with food (his cousin died of anorexia and his cousin became a prominent sumo wrestler), and whose family is still governed by the old Japanese precepts, decides on his own to stop eating after Of a strange dream you have one night. From then on, he begins to remember different inexplicable events that occurred the first time he traveled to Africa and discovered a new species of insect.

This story by Bellatin, adapted by Liniers and by the narrator himself, has a nightmare and disturbing aroma, which makes it a very difficult diamond in the world of comics.

The Black Ball story has also been adapted to an opera that Bellatin has filmed with the composer Marcela Rodríguez in Ciudad Juárez (the deadliest place in Mexico), and Documenta de Kassel (Germany), the quinquennial exhibition of contemporary art.