As summer arrives, Clark informs Jende that the family will be going to stay at their home in the Hamptons. Jende can take two weeks of paid vacation during this time since the family won’t need him. Jende is ecstatic and makes plans to pick up some shifts at the cab company where he used to work. Neni will also earn money by skipping the summer semester at school and working as a housekeeper for Cindy for a few weeks, work that will earn her three times what she normally makes as a health aide. During a face-to-face interview, Cindy tells Neni she has no problem with Neni's pregnancy and gives Neni instructions on how to take the train to the Hamptons with the regular housekeeper, Anna.

When Jende insists that Neni must do excellent work, Neni brushes off his warning by reminding Jende that in the 1980s and 1990s, her family was rich. They had a good car and the only TV around in Limbe. They lost everything after a power change stripped her father of the seaport job that had allowed him access to rich bribes. All the respect people had given her father disappeared with the money.