Hassan Hagihossein, a doctoral student in mathematics, has a pregnant wife, and she has not spoken to him for nine days. Lost in thought, he pensively toys with colored glass in their spare, colorless apartment. Before Kavita, his wife, became pregnant, he understood her perfectly. But the night she takes the test and sees the positive result, she goes for a walk and tells Hassan not to follow her. This perplexes him. His father, who always disapproved of the match, offers no help. The night walks continue, and Hassan's grip on reality falters. Attempts to use his dissertation as a distraction fail spectacularly, so one night, he follows her and sees her walk into the university's Art and Architecture Building. Gratified, he walks home. Later, he concocts an excursion to a glass factory to reconnect with the increasingly distant Kavita. This cheers him, but his next night in pursuit of Kavita, upon which he sees her come out of the building with some students, causes him to unravel completely. The third time he follows her is the worst. She has, he discovers, been posing nude for an art class. He snaps, and throws a paintbrush jar at the students before running off. This is why she stops speaking to him. Nine days later, the mail comes: he has won free glassware from the factory. After he begins to make a mobile with it for the baby, due in just a few weeks, he calls Kavita over to show her. She finally speaks. Why, she asks, does he never look at her? Never touch her? In response, he strokes her hair, and the words bubble up through his throat. She is all he looks at. She is all he sees.