Will decides to work through his last summer before he goes off to college. His job as a garbage man runs a route through China Town in New York City, and the route is known for its god-awful smell. Will considers the sacrifice of his last summer with his friends worth it in order to earn money to move out of his parent's house and live in an apartment with his girlfriend. One day, Will is garbage into the truck when one of the bags bursts open, and stinking slime pours all over him. The stench had been on the verge of making him sick before, but the sheer disgust of the horrible sludge being all over him was traumatic enough for him to start slowly and carefully putting the bags in the truck. After a while Will is picking up the bags at a massage parlor, where he notices a rip in the bag. Reluctant to make the same mistake and end up slimed again, Will puts the bag down to get a better angle on it so nothing falls out. But, when he does, a finger with a painted nail falls out. He shouts, horrified, and tells Antoine, the jovial driver. Antoine tells him to just put the bag in so they can leave, but Will insists that they call the police, and says she was a person, and he wasn't going to just throw her in the back with the trash. Antoine tells him to finish throwing the bags in the back so they can go, but Will resists until it's too late. A man stands in the window of the massage parlor smoking a cigarette, and watches them. Will hears a gun click, and knows they're trapped. A woman steps out of the parlor, and tells him the American name of the woman in the bags, Amy, as well as her given Chinese name; Chao-xing. She says that they, as Chinese immigrants, take American names in order to be remembered, as Americans can't — or won't — remember foreign names. At the end of their conversation, where the woman tells Chao-xing's story and dubs it now meaningless, she slips four hundred dollars into Will's pocket, takes his wallet to see his address, and shoos him away. As he boards the truck, the woman calls to him and asks him he if remembers the woman's Chinese name. At that moment, he doesn't. When Antoine and Will return to the trash depot, Will offers to split the bribe with him. Antoine silently declines. Will, disgusted now by the money, throws it into the garbage where Chao-xing's body is, then remembers her name, and regrets it.