Alex Novak returns to his home city fifteen years after he left. For several weeks, he goes to a café to watch a woman who goes there daily. One day, Novak has a table inside the café. The woman enters. She is blind and is wearing a full facial covering. She asks Novak to come to sit by the window with her. Novak joins her. They chat.

Novak begins to cough. He apologizes and explains that he is very ill. Novak thinks that he is only safe because of her blindness. They have small talk. They exchange names. The woman is called Lyssa.

Lyssa asks if Novak is wondering about her mask. Novak says no. They hold hands. Novak pulls away and Lyssa makes a comment about him only having three fingers. She asks how he lost them. Novak says he knew her husband. Novak owed him a great deal of money that he could not repay. Due to this, Lyssa’s husband had Novak’s hand crushed in a vice.

Lyssa tells him that her husband is dead. Novak says that he knew. Lyssa explains that Novak is the one who took her face. She had an affair with his driver Marcus. One day someone came up to her and threw acid on her face. Marcus disappeared around the same time. Novak becomes very emotional.

He says that he cannot imagine how hard that must have been. He remembers having this same thought for many sleepless nights in his past. Novak asks how she feels about the man who threw the acid under the orders of her husband.

Lyssa said that she never saw him and wonders how Novak knew that it was not her husband who did it. Novak explains that people like her husband never carry out their own dirty work. Novak explains that he remembers the men who crushed his hand and that he spent a long time hating them. Lyssa adds that there is no point in hating the men as they were probably victims of her husband all the same. She explains that after all of it, she has led a decently pleasant life. She continues to say that she hopes the men who did it feel no guilt at what they were forced to do. She says she is grateful for her company and hopes he will join her again.

Novak says he is not sure how much longer he will be around as he is very ill. He says he only came back to revisit his old hauntings. Novak goes home.