Miranda, who is nine, and her brother Paul, who is twelve, are walking through the woods of their property in Texas to hunt. Their family farm has just been sold, so their grandfather's coffin and many other family members have been moved into the local graveyard. The children climb over a fence to explore the graveyard, which is now just full of empty holes where the coffins were. Miranda stands in one of the holes and scoops up some dirt, discovering a silver dove. Paul finds a gold ring in another hole. They bicker over who will keep what, and decide that Paul will get the dove and Miranda will get the ring. Then, they go back into the woods. Paul insists that he gets to kill the first animal they see, because Miranda does not actually care about getting the animal, she just likes to shoot the gun. While they walk, Miranda looks at the ring and has the desire to put on a fancy dress instead of her overalls. A rabbit leaps in front of the path, and Paul kills it in one shot. Paul skins the rabbit, then points out its bloated stomach and notes that it was going to have babies. He opens it up to reveal the babies. Miranda begins to tremble, but she is curious. She feels her former ignorance fading away. Paul says quietly that the baby rabbits were just about ready to be born, and Miranda says that she won't have the skin from the rabbit. Paul wraps the skin around the rabbit and buries it. Then, he says to Miranda that she cannot tell anyone what she saw, because their father will get angry at Paul for leading Miranda into things she shouldn't do. The event sinks to the back of Miranda's mind. Twenty years later, Miranda is walking through a market street in India. A street vendor holds up candy shaped like baby animals, including baby rabbits. The episode leaps to her mind and she remembers the day exactly as it was. The sweets smell like the sweetness of the soil that she smelled in the empty graves, and the dreadful vision of that day soon fades. The vision is replaced with the image of her brother's childhood face as he stands smiling in the sunshine and turns the silver dove over in his hands.