The narrative of Benito Cereno concludes with the dramatic rescue of Captain Amasa Delano, the legal trial of the surviving rebelling enslaved Africans in Lima, Peru, and the tragic psychological demise of Don Benito Cereno himself. Following Babo's execution for leading the mutiny, Don Benito dies shortly thereafter, broken by the lingering trauma of the ordeal, while Captain Delano attempts to resume a conventional worldview that remains utterly oblivious to the story's deeper moral complexities.