Just before he heads off for a vacation he had planned with his friends, Victor gets a call from his father who tells him that Sander has died. Sander had been in contact with Victor's dad, Leon, to replace the gravestone of Leon's father in Riga, Latvia. Leon asks Victor to travel to Latvia to meet with Sander's son, Ilya, and meet with the stonecutter to make sure that the new gravestone looks alright. Though Victor is hesitant to cancel his vacation, he is finally convinced to go by his parents, since he knows that they can't travel on account of their declining health, and because his father may well pass before the gravestone is placed if Victor doesn't go now. Once in Latvia, Victor is taken aback by his place of birth. Though he lived there shortly, his family moved to Los Angeles afterwards where his father pursued a career in medicine, and where Victor now holds a lucrative law career. Many of the places look run down or rub Victor the wrong way, especially since he was supposed to be in Scotland with his friends and a girl they planned to set him up with. Victor meets with Ilya, another lawyer, and they go to the cemetery to see the current grave of his grandfather. While there, Victor observes the differences between the graves of his grandfather and Ilya's father, the latter being much smaller. The next day, though Victor was supposed to meet with the stonecutter, he doesn't show, which leaves Victor to meet with Ilya after one of his court cases. The two converse, and talk about the economic and social differences between Latvia and America, and Ilya slowly begins a conversation about how he wants to send his wife and daughter to America. Confused, Victor says that he doesn't handle immigration legal work, but it becomes clear that Ilya was suggesting that Victor marry his wife and bring her to the US, to later be joined by Ilya when the family has settled. Victor refuses, and Ilya changes the subject by saying that they should meet with the stonecutter. When they get to the stonecutter's workplace, Victor interrogates the man about the gravestone that his father had already paid for and had been told was completed. Ilya reveals that his father had died on the way to the stonecutter's shop. He had suffered a heart attack from the heat on the bus, which lead him to blame their family for his father's death, all for some measly money. Ilya gives Victor the option to pay for the gravestone again, and finally get the job finished. He promises to send him a photo as proof, but Victor refuses and returns to his hotel room. When he is ready to leave Latvia, Victor calls his father to tell him that he met with the stonecutter, saw the gravestone, and that everything was perfectly fine.