On a summer night, Rob and Min are lay in bed, roused from their sleep by parallel dreams. Rob shares his dream first at Min's insistence, describing himself as a boy of 14 or 15 years living in the countryside surrounded by but still distant from an ongoing war. In Rob’s dream, he has tuberculosis. The doctor suggests that he walk up the mountain to the springs in search of healing waters. He begins his travels and notes how he never felt lonesome even though he encounters little to no people throughout his journey. He also notes his lack of hunger, despite the trip spanning over a couple of days. He never sleeps either, and remarks on his focus and determination on reaching his destination. At this point in Rob’s story, Min interrupts, questioning the veracity of the dream and goads him to continue to the end. Rob continues that on the final night of his trek over the mountain to the healing spring, he walked through a storm that sent trees and boulders hurtling to the ground all around him. He finally reaches the mountain top and sees a group of people, the first he’d seen since the doctor who diagnosed him. Rob approaches them, asking an old man from the group about the springs. The man tells Rob that the springs which he is searching for belong to him, however, they no longer exist. A smiling girl, a few years younger than Rob and later revealed to be the old man's daughter, approaches him to say that the springs were buried by the same storm he had traveled through. Rob insists on unearthing the springs for no cost. The smiling girl claims that nothing is free and offers herself as compensation for recovering the springs. For the next several weeks, Rob digs through the dirt to uncover the springs and grows to love the girl. After some time, Rob finally discovers one of the springs surrounded by white flintstones, and he offers the first pure drink to the old man. The old man declines, giving the drink to Rob. Rob drinks the water and the old man offers everything—the people, the spring, and his daughter to Rob. At this point, Rob stops the dream and wakes up. Min remarks that her dream continued from Rob's. Min says she was the smiling girl in the dream and that Rob killed her. Rob strikes her across the mouth and they lay in silence. Some minutes pass and Min turns to Rob in the bed and explains that she had been hoping to find more fulfillment in their relationship and that she could’ve had a better life if she’d resisted being with Rob. Rob agrees and at that moment, Min desperately tries to recover some part of Rob's youth that has degraded through the years. She straddles him and the two have sex. Afterward, with daybreak minutes away, Rob emerges from the bed, walking towards his mirror where two photos lay curled. One photo captures a fifteen-year-old girl with a fierce expression, and the other captures a boy, his almost twelve-year-old son Hutch, smiling freely, still carefree. Rob begins packing a bag with all his belongings and dresses in a suit. He approaches the bed, rousing Min from the bed so they could leave before his landlord sees them together. While Min dresses, she declares that she’s tired of waiting for Rob to get his life in order and that if he cannot commit to their relationship within a week, she will never speak to him again. Rob asks for her to give him more time to which she pretends to agree. Rob understands Min will not wait long and the two stare wordlessly at each other, sharing their relationship's last moments before leaving the house.