One afternoon, Martha, Isabel's five-year-old daughter, approaches Lucy and tells her that Isabel is dead. Lucy, an overweight woman with two kids of her own — David and Jennie — runs to Isabel's house to see if it is true that her best friend and neighbor is dead. As Lucy approaches the house, she sees the closed curtains and realizes that Isabel is taking her afternoon nap. Lucy thinks about how Martha is a devil child. Then, Lucy hears shrieks and hides in the playhouse in Isabel's backyard. Inside the house, Lucy hears her son David tell Isabel's daughter Miranda to "kick her." Lucy runs forward and sees David and Jennie, along with Isabel's two children, Miranda and Martha, in Isabel's kitchen. The children kick, pinch, and touch Isabel's body to see if Isabel is truly dead. Lucy approaches the kitchen and David, her six-year-old, tells her that Isabel is dead. Jennie cries and screams. David calls an ambulance while Lucy takes the other children outside. Lucy decides to leave because she does not want to be around when the ambulance arrives. She tells the children that she will take them out for ice cream, and the children are easily distracted. They go to the park and swing. David yells at Miranda and Martha that their mother is dead. Jennie cries. Lucy licks her ice cream.