A woman reads a story in a newspaper. It shatters her world. Her hopes for herself and the child she is carrying turn to fear. She tries to explain to her partner. He will not listen: "That kid's a curse on me. Get rid of it or I'm out."

Play by Edward Bond. A woman's decision to keep the child she is afraid of having is reckoned to be a curse according to the father. Years later, the child turns into a man - and confronts his father once more.