A young woman is following an endless path that weaves through towns and forests. In the forest she feels safer, but uneasy at the intimacy of the many trees pressed near each other and their roots digging into the earth. She wants to lie down in the forest at the foot of the mountain off the path, but something within her drives her to continue walking forward. She is pregnant and soon to be in labor. She calls the baby her Sin, and has tried starving herself in order to kill the unborn child but was unsuccessful. She stops when she reaches a small shack on the path where a young girl ties up a horse and a woman is inside. She asks the woman for a drink and where she can find the closest mill. The woman tells her which families live in the surrounding area and what they are like. The young pregnant woman leaves before she gets her drink and heads into the woods toward a house, knowing she is about to go into labor. She passes out just as she reaches the house and wakes up in a bed with a woman placing her newborn child next to her. The young woman is disgusted by the child and covers it with the quilt as a way to cover her sin. She falls asleep and dreams she is walking along a forest path with the trees and their thousands of eyes staring at her, wanting her to confess her sins. They tear at her with their branched arms, rip off her clothes, and slice her bare skin. She realizes she must tell them the whole truth and recounts her memories of the past and the origin of her sin, the newborn child. She tells them about a woman who took her in as a young girl and raised her as her own daughter. The woman only did so because her husband wanted the orphaned young girl because of her beauty. When the mother was not present, the husband would tell the young girl how beautiful she was and how he picked her out. She tells them about the boy who was meant to be her brother and how he left to travel and learn and came back speaking the language of poems to her, making her fall in love with him. She confesses that she wanted the boy she had been told was her brother, and how he is the reason for her sin, the child she has just birthed. The next morning she wakes early and heads back onto the path through the woods. After walking some, she falls to the ground crying, yearning for the child she left behind at the stranger's house and wishing she could nourish it. She holds all the memories of her past and continues walking down the road, knowing one day she will be able to get off of it and settle into a home.