Mr. Rangsey is a wealthy man in Phnom Penh who lives in the house Sopeap the teacher lived in when the housekeeper, Samnang, and Sopeap’s son were killed. Sopeap wishes to die in that same house, since her family did, and though Mr. Rangsey initially refuses, when he hears she was once a teacher, he graciously gives permission, since his own father was a teacher killed by the Khmer Rouge as well.