A boy remembers how, when he was fifteen, his friend Bob suddenly announced that he would swim across the Moira River. They sit on a cliff together and watch the river; Bob begins to pretend to fight him, punching the younger, smaller boy until he nearly falls off the ledge. Bob repeats again that he will swim across the river, which is lively and dangerous. The boy says that no one could do it and thinks back to Bob losing his older friend Jim to a drinking problem. After the death of his friend, Bob jumped off a train and fell into a coma but later recovered. The boy tries again to warn Bob not to try, and Bob laughs but says that he once had a younger brother like him, who died three years prior due to polio. Bob then prepares to swim across the river, first checking to make sure that he didn’t hurt his friend, whom he gives his watch to keep safe. The boy watches Bob dive into the river, but the water is too harsh and Bob cannot swim across, choking in the water. A jagged rock in the water slashes Bob’s face, covering him in blood, and the boy desperately tries to save Bob from a whirlpool. He recovers Bob’s body, but one of Bob’s eyes is missing and a nostril is ripped, bleeding everywhere. He holds Bob’s dead body.