Jenny is a new aid at the nursing home, a young woman. She is kind and caring, and a paralyzed elderly woman at the home takes a liking to her. The woman reminisces on her past life often, thinking of how much of a talker she used to be, of her loving relationship with her partner Sam. Now, however, she cannot speak, or even move her limbs, only blink and smile carefully. And so she is unable to tell anyone about a frightening man who enters her room at night and talks to her about how he kills the other elderly people in their home. She doesn't know what he looks like, or if he is one of the patients, she only knows the sound of his voice.

He has mentioned that he likes to kill the people who have loving family, who will be missed and grieved over. So when she sees Mina, another patient, being received by her family at a concert, the woman fears for Mina, and the man confirms her fears a month or so later. She has been working hard, able to get a couple fingers on her right hand to move recently. She is able to communicate to Jenny that Mina is in danger, and has her put her in Mina's room, with Jenny there to watch over them both that night. The man does come, and she uses all her will to move her right hand and shatter some vases, which wakes Jenny up. Jenny tackles the man and prevents him from suffocating Mina with the pillow.

The man is taken away, but all she can think is that she is still there, still suffering, still lonely.