Anna enrolls Janet in the boarding school she wants to attend. Janet goes to school dressed in her ugly uniform and leaves her mother alone in the empty flat. At this point Anna remembers a game she used to play as a young child. This game was a naming game where she would "create" the world around her by naming all of the objects in it. An American writer named Saul Green moves in with Anna. She is immediately uncomfortable around the man and begins to have panic attacks because of him.
Although she at first doesn't like the man, the two soon begin to have an affair. Anna learns another woman likes Saul and she assumes the two are sleeping together on the side. One day while Saul is away Anna reads.....
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