When the narrator thinks back on her life, she realizes that everything started when she decided to move to a boarding house. Her name is Renata Sofiananda, and she's an office lady who's looking for a job. She's in love with bayu, but she doesn't want to live with the other tenants because they're too "weird" to like her. She tells the narrator that the tenants are weird too, and that she hopes the narrator will get used to them.