A woman on a plane from Dubai to London starts talking to the woman next to her who seems anxious. The anxious woman says that in 1989, her father died when she was twelve. The day of the funeral it was pouring, and she and her brother both held their mother's hand. At home, her younger brother Teddy started acting out and screaming at mealtimes, so the woman's overbearing aunt (her father's sister) came to help her mother with the children. The aunt moved into a room near the garage of the house that the woman hated because it smelled like earth. The aunt is very attentive to the younger brother, but does not pay much attention to the girl. One night, the girl wakes up scared in the middle of the night. In Teddy's room, she hears Teddy laugh and say "Toto" as if greeting someone. Teddy becomes more of a handful, kicking and biting the aunt and screaming that he does not like his mother. One day, the aunt takes the children to church while the mother stays home. When they get home, they cannot find the mother. The girl puts her eye to the keyhole of the room she doesn't like, and she sees a red eye staring back at her. She jumps back and screams. The mother is on the floor of the room with a few small cuts on her, and they all assume that she fell. The girl becomes easily startled and hates being alone. One night, her aunt is playing with Teddy and tickling him. Teddy says "Toto cut Auntie with a knife," and the Aunt drags him upstairs to bed. When the girl walks by Teddy's room later, she hears him laughing. The girl is awoken in the early morning by her mother's screaming. She had found the aunt's body, and the girl was not allowed to see it, but all of the police officers were green-faced when they came out. The family moves to Dubai, where Teddy behaves like a normal child. The anxious woman says nothing else for the rest of the flight. The woman beside her is unsettled by the story, and turns on all of her lights when she gets home.