Miranda is a university student working on a thesis on haiku, with an experimental twist that her advisor doesn't understand. She also bought a painting of the sea that is losing water.

Olivia notices a blood stain on her panties during her 8th birthday. After trying to remove the stain, she tells her mother, who assumes that she has started her menstrual cycle. After a couple of interactions with her older cousin, Ernesto, her mother is no longer sure what is going on, however, they will only be able to talk about it 10 years later.