Mr. Rangsey is a wealthy man in Phnom Penh who lives in the house Sopeap the teacher lived in when the housekeeper, , 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.