The scene opens on the second floor of a hotel, where a young man and a woman are engaged in a sexual encounter. The young man asks the woman what she wants, and the woman replies that she wants him to look at her and not respond to her touch. The man says that he wants her to respond to his touch as well, and she responds that she does not want him to do so either. The two men discuss the fact that they are not in a "simple business relationship," but rather in "a human side" . The woman says that she is in love with the man, and that he is her lover, but that he does not respond in the same way as she does. She says that the man has an uncanny way of "provoking a man too," and the man responds by saying that he too has a "uncanny way of provoking a man." The