In this short scene, the protagonist is introduced. He is a thirty-year-old man who has just come out as a homosexual. He has come out because his mother has warned him that if he thinks of her, she will kick him in the head. The protagonist's mother has recently been admitted to the hospital, and he is very upset. He tells his mother that he will not be able to see her today, and she tells him to go back to his father's house.