June insists on helping Eamon smoke the tobacco fields to help keep a blight from spreading, a task he has been undertaking alone. After they finish for the day, they kiss passionately but are interrupted by a sound, and they see that Caleb is inside the house. Eamon fires the rifle at Caleb’s car, but he gets away. June finds that the newspaper clippings, note with the years of travel, and photograph are missing from the bedroom.

Eamon and June discuss the dates of travel. He tells her that after she became pregnant with Annie, she became obsessed with breaking the curse.

Annie goes missing among the tobacco. Eamon and June panic, eventually finding her when she calls out for “Mama.”

Memories begin to surface more quickly, including June’s pregnancy and Annie’s birth. June and Eamon have sex. It’s like a “homecoming” rather than a first time.