Only the sugar is missing, so the mother tells her child to cross the road to their neighbor's to borrow some. And while the child opens the gate, the man who is going to lose a child yells that she has to hurry up, because the boat is waiting for them in the grass, and they are going to row further down the river than they have ever done before. As the child runs through the garden, she thinks of the river and of the fish, and nobody whispers to the child that she only has eight more minutes to live, and that the boat is going to stay where it is, today and many other days. It is not far to the neighbor's, only across the road, and while the child is running across, the little blue car is going into the second village. It is a small village with only a few red houses, and people who just have woken up are sitting in kitchens with coffee cups in their hands, and they see the car rushing by.
Summer is in the air, and the man and the woman are all be themselves on the road.
The man is happy and strong, and with his right arm he can feel his woman's body. He is not an evil man, and yet is he soon going to kill a child. While they are going into the third village, the man thinks that if they hurry, they will have five whole hours in the boat, and the woman closes her eyes again, and says that she won't open them again until she sees the ocean. In the last minute of a child's life, her parents sit in the kitchen waiting for sugar, and the child closes the neighbor's gate, and starts to cross the road with the cubes of sugar in her hand, and she sees nothing else but the river and the fish. Afterwards, everthing is too late.