In this short scene, the young man who introduces himself as "the future me" and his companion are introduced to each other. The "future me" is a young man in his mid-thirties who has just returned from a trip to his mother's house in France. The young man, who has no idea why he has come to Paris, asks his companion why his mother does not work anymore. The man explains that his mother has always been "smothering" him, and that he has been unable to get married because of this.