A woman goes to visit her criminally insane husband, who is held in an institution after he murdered their three children.  Back when she was sixteen, the woman visited her mother in the hospital every day. There was an orderly—an older man, only a few years younger than her mother—who they became good friends with. He kissed her in the elevator. When her mother died she went to live with the man. Then she got pregnant and married him. They went to live in the country, and the man became increasingly controlling. He didn’t believe in birth control or putting the kids in school.  The woman made a friend who started to realize her marriage is unhealthy. She and her husband got in a bad argument one night, and she spent the night at her friend’s house. When she came home the next morning, her husband had already killed the children.  He did not go to trial because he was deemed criminally insane, and got put in a “secure institution.” A social worker helped the woman, finding her somewhere to live and a job. Now the woman works as a hotel chambermaid, and continues to regularly check in with the social worker.  The woman continues to visit her husband in secret, because she senses disapproval from her social worker. Her husband eventually writes her to tell her that he has come out on the other side and is no longer insane. He also tells her that he has seen their children, happy and healthy, in another dimension. The woman does not completely buy these claims, but realizes the thought of her children in another dimensions is the only thing that has given her happiness in a very long time, and her husband gave that to her. She starts to feel like her purpose in life is to understand her husband.  She is sitting on the bus to go visit him when she sees a truck get in an accident and the driver fly out of it. She follows the bus driver to the boy who is lying on the ground without breathing. She gives him mouth-to-mouth and saves his life. The bus driver urges her to leave the boy and get back on the bus so they are not late to their destination. She stays with the boy instead.