Eliot opens the play with a soliloquy on the subject of "best 9 perfect" . He asks the audience to imagine that he is in the middle of an experiment on a cat. Eliot then tells us that he has come to visit Eliot's father, who is a member of the American Medical Association's Council on Science and Public Health. Eliot asks his father if he would like to take care of his daughter, and his father replies that he would. Eliot tells his father that his mother was a prima donna in the Israeli national opera, and that she has taught him everything she has learned. Eliot says that his father has forbidden him to drive until he is thirty years old, but that he can still enjoy his ride on the road.