For Bessie Popkin, an elderly widow, the missing items in her house are the work of demons and evil creatures, if not stolen by those darned neighbors of hers. Before she leaves to go grocery shopping, she spends hours making sure that everything is securely locked away. She lives alone in an apartment paid for by the huge sums of money she inherited from her husband, Sam. Ever since his death, Bessie has felt like the whole world is in shambles. Leaving the house is a dangerous feat, and grocery shopping is an arduous task that takes her hours. After she returns back to the apartment, her key accidentally breaks in the lock. Bessie realizes that she had privately changed the lock out of paranoia a few years ago, so none of the building’s general keys will work. She heads for a hardware store and leaves her groceries at the door, though she knows that someone will surely steal them by the time she returns. It is nighttime, and she unintentionally finds her way to a church. She speaks a Yiddish prayer for the first time in years and dozes off. When Bessie wakes up, she goes outside the church and looks up at the stars. It has been years since she truly lifted her gaze from the ground, and she comes to realize how much she has abandoned all her duties. She failed to pray even for Sam’s death anniversaries and has secluded herself for too long. Bessie feels that the broken key unlocked an old part of her brain, and the world that seemed so dangerous now looks kindly once again. It is morning by the time Bessie returns to her apartment, and she informs the superintendent about her broken key. He scolds her for placing herself in danger instead of coming to him and explains that he can open her door. Her neighbor emerges and says that she kept the abandoned groceries in her fridge to keep them from going bad. They get the apartment open, and Bessie is shocked by its neglected state. She feels a heavy pressure on her chest, and her surroundings start to fade away. In a silent place, Sam appears and guides her to the meeting point between two mountains. He informs her that she does not need a key here to enter.