While her son is away, mother Shizuko invites her lover over. Even when her son returns home, she remains unfazed, hiding the man under the table and pretending to sleep—an eerie, unsettling act. Her son is stunned by her behavior and tries to make her realize what she's doing. "Aren't you forgetting the person closest to you?" he warns. His words finally reach her, and Shizuko makes up her mind to go to her son.