His wife had passed away long ago, so the old man lived completely alone.

The gangsters — rough, arrogant thugs from a nearby neighborhood, with bulging muscles and empty eyes — decided to take the old man’s house. First, they watched him, then decided to act cleverly: they offered him “help,” knowing that he was struggling financially and that his pension barely covered food.

They lent him a small amount of money with such high interest that no sane person would ever sign such papers. But the old man, confused and trusting in people’s kindness, signed without reading the fine print, where it stated in small letters that if he failed to repay, he would lose his house.