Upon returning to her cell, Molina offers Valentin the food she says her mother brought, insisting that Valentin stop eating prison food. When Valentin asks her to share a movie like the one about the panther woman, Molina starts recounting the plot of a movie about zombies. Meanwhile, both characters’ thoughts wander. Molina thinks of a night shift nurse sleepwalking and caring for a patient who may be contagious, while Valentin thinks of shattered glass and skin, cold nights, dank walls, and “mass cards of saints and whores” (168). 

In the movie, a woman travels to the Caribbean to marry her fiancé, a widower and plantation owner. She moves in and meets the majordomo, who makes demands of the widower, has him sign papers, and destroys his alcohol. The night before the marriage, the woman is attacked by a ghostlike figure who turns out to be the widower’s first wife. She faints and wakes up to the housekeeper taking care of her. 

The couple marries, and the woman learns from the housekeeper that the island is full of vodou, zombies, and witch doctors who have control over the zombies. Molina says that “the only thing [the zombies] get to do is obey and suffer” (167).