The women have dinner together at Grandmè Ifé's house. Ifé takes Atie to task for going out at night to take reading lessons from Louise.
Atie reads to them from her "book," which is a notebook she has written in. She chooses to read out the little poem that Sophie wrote on that last Mother's Day card before she left Haiti.
That night, Sophie lies in bed with her daughter and thinks of Joseph. She remembers his tenderness during her pregnancy. She wants to tell Brigitte a story, like Atie used to.
Atie returns late in the night from her reading lessons with Louise. She seems a bit drunk and Ifé takes her to task for it. Atie doesn't care one bit.