As he finds himself feeling more isolated in his old age, Fritz wants to learn about the people who previously owned his land. He owns about ten acres of Massachusetts land, which keeps his home isolated from other neighbors, and he knows that the land was previously owned by a man who built a summer home for himself and his wife. Fritz regards his land and wonders if this history is even correct. He questions why some of the old roads on his land run straight into a wall of monoliths, which renders them unusable. Even so, he considers his land to have had four eras prior to his to his ownership: the era of the man and his wife; the era after the man’s death and his wife’s leaving the house behind; the era of their home standing empty; and lastly, the era where a family moved in, and the father stayed until all his children left. One day, he finds a charred work glove with “Sarge” written on it and imagines who the glove could belong to. Near the house, he also finds six porcelain teacups and wonders whose they are. Fritz often dreams of his past, including his first wife and the vibrant parties he used to host, but when he wakes up, he finds himself in bed with his second wife, Grace, who sometimes says that she wishes she never married him. Fritz then visits a friend in the hospital after a heart attack and thinks about how bodies begin to fail their owners. Upon his return home, he continues to look for old belongings of people who lived on his land previously and remembers that when he first moved there, he would hit golf balls into the woods, which announced the beginning of his own era.