The scene opens with Minakata, who has just returned from a trip to Europe. She tells the audience that she has just come from a long journey, and that she is tired of her travels. She asks the audience to imagine what it must be like to be on the other side of the world, in a foreign country, and to imagine that it is like being in the middle of a war. The audience imagines what it would be like if the war were to take place in front of them, and they imagine that the war would be fought between the two countries. They imagine that they would have to fight in order to win the war, and then they imagine how it would feel to be a prisoner in the camp of the enemy, in this case, the British Empire.