At the end of the twentieth century, no more than three bears lived in the whole Alps: only three male bears even too old to reproduce. Since the second half of the nineteenth century the bear has been the victim of a wild hunt aimed at the annihilation of the species from the Alps. Mission almost accomplished. In 1996 it borns the European project Life Ursus with the final intent of saving the specie from a localized extinction. Three years later, 10 Slovenian bears will be freed in the upper portion of Tovel valley, in the same Brenta Dolomites that housed the three bears survived to the carnage of the last century. Today in Trentino there are about a hundred bears and their return has seen the reemergence of the same ancestral conflicts that have always marked the coexistence between man and bears, because their return triggers the ferocity and ignorance of those people who, caressing the barrel of the rifle, still claim that “the bear has never existed here”. And so there are those who see them as a new symbol of the world revolution, who as thieves or murderers. Someone just studies them and someone else crawls into their lairs. Over time the bear has been used alternately as an attraction for tourism and as an aggregator for social anger, as an object of desire and as a great monster to keep away. Kirka is the story of the presence of the bear in the Alps throughth centuries and even more is the tale of a coexistence too often attacked and thought as impossible.