Late at night, Grazina’s dementia breaks through earlier than usual, and Hai again enters her wartime fantasy to keep her calm. Sitting under the dining room table as if they are soldiers in a field, Hai plays along as her sergeant and guides her through the house, trying to redirect her fear and prevent a more dangerous episode until morning.

Hai leads Grazina into the pantry, which she imagines as a hunter’s shed in wartime Germany. Her mind keeps slipping across eras, from the battlefield to childhood and family memories, and Hai struggles to hold her to any single reality. When Hai asks who the president is, a question he uses to test whether she is lucid, Grazina cannot answer at first and instead becomes increasingly disoriented while moving things on the shelves.

Behind a bag of flour, Grazina finds an old tin containing a hand-drawn bedsheet from her girlhood. The discovery steadies her. With unusual clarity, she explains that she used to draw on her sheets to ease nightmares, then begins telling Hai about Marta, an owl-like village girl who learned to swim with an admired miner’s son named Filip.

As Grazina continues, the story darkens into an implied confession. During their final swim, fish swarm around Marta and Filip surfaces dead, smiling, before he can go off to war and become a hero. Grazina refuses to say directly what happened to Marta, but the way she tells the story suggests that Marta is a stand-in for herself and that Filip’s drowning was not simply an accident.

At the bottom of the tin, Grazina finds an envelope stuffed with more than four thousand dollars that Jonas left for her. Still moving between delusion and lucidity, she insists Hai take the money for their imagined journey, and Hai hides it on his body while thinking of Sony and Kim’s bail. By dawn, as Grazina drifts toward sleep and briefly recognizes the present, Hai accepts both the money and a new resolve: he will survive.