The character is playing a game with her daughter, Molly, trying to piece together the details of her current life in a different timeline, where she's married to a man named Ash.
They live in Cambridge, and she works as a Philosophy teacher at Cambridge University. Molly also reveals that her mother is stopping her teaching work to write a book.
Molly's father, Ash, is a surgeon who works at a location in Cambridge and is known for playing music badly.
Molly has relatives, Aunt Jaya, Uncle Joe, and Uncle Ewan. Uncle Joe, in particular, is the character's brother, and they have a good relationship in this timeline.
Molly's grandparents only include Grandma Sal; the character refrains from asking about her own parents' deaths.
Despite some struggles, Molly suggests that her family is happy. They have a Labrador dog named Plato.
The character wakes up to find herself alone with Plato. She sees the sunlight through the curtains, indicating it's morning, and seems to be waiting for Ash's arrival.
Nora feels disheveled after sleeping on the floor and tries to quickly prepare herself before Ash, who she simultaneously knows and doesn't know, arrives.