Iris wakes up from a nightmare, fearing that one day she will grow old and be completely loveless and alone. Her husband Charles enters the room to comfort her; she wants him to stay, but he does not. The next day, she drives up to the city to spend two days with her childhood friend Fred and his roommate Richard. The two men talk amongst themselves, and Fred tells Richard that Iris's husband won't kiss her or sleep with her because he's got tuberculosis and does not want to risk infecting her, even though she loves him deeply and would risk it for his sake. Richard suspects that Iris has come here to initiate a physical relationship with Fred. Iris makes it clear that she has come to have fun, and the three of them start their night out by going to Richard's girlfriend's house for a meal. Quite soon, they are all drunk, and Iris remembers a song from her childhood that Fred then begins to sing until she is annoyed and kisses him to shut him up. At the end of the night, Iris and Fred leave alone. In the morning she wakes up alone, but feeling as though her entire being has been changed and made younger by the physical intimacy of the night before. Fred has gone out to bring her juice, and she runs into the landlady, who Fred had told that Iris was his mother who was visiting after a long time. Confused and a little humiliated, Iris returns to bed and feels like she is imprisoned. Her nightmare about being old and loveless has returned to her since Fred introduced her as his aged mother and is not beside her in the moment.