In this short scene, we are introduced to a young man who has just returned from a trip to the Garden of Eden. We are told that he is accompanied by his father-in-law, Kamarushiro Mizuta, a senior reporter at the Shimotsu Shimbun. The young man has come to deliver a new dress for his mother, who has recently passed away. The two men discuss the new dress, which they have just purchased, and the young man wonders why he has not been able to return to his mother's house. He also wonders why his mother is not home with him, and he wonders if she has been sleeping with him.