Saba is visiting her extended family in Ethiopia. As she is preparing to leave for the airport, the family gets into an altercation over what items should be sent back to the US with Saba versus which ones are a waste of space. Because international mail services are costly, and often untrustworthy, families from foreign countries prefer to use visiting family members as a postal service to ship goods to and from their families. Saba had brought goods for them one way, and now they need her to take goods for their distant families back. Each member of the family, from uncles to grandmothers, makes an argument for why their items deserve the space they're afforded. The grandmother begs her to take bread for her grandchildren that she hasn't seen in decades, lest they forget her. Others argue for taking spices or Ethiopian remedies for their family in the US. Each member makes their case to Saba, and she is ultimately left with the power to decide whose items stay and whose go, though she feels guilty about trying to weigh anyone's situation against another's because they all carry their own validity with their argument. In the end, Saba decides to sacrifice the space for her things so that the family can send their items and she'll be able to return for her stuff in the future. They rush to the airport and make it just in time for Saba to leave.