Though Maureen started off as the center of her husband Elliot’s world, their two sons, Jason and Alphonse have taken her place. Her only separation from her home life is her swimming routine while the boys are at school. She is interrupted and forced to pick her sons up from school as Jason has instigated a fight, and she returns home to find Elliot in bed with a younger co-worker. She throws his lover out of the house and trashes their bedroom while the boys play outside, and in the end the only thing she hears is that Elliot doesn’t love her any more. Elliot walks away, and Maureen is left to deal with her two boys, who are covered in mud. While she bathes them, her annoyance, anger, hurt and frustration cause her to snap as the boys roughhouse, splashing the bathroom and her with water. Without realizing what she is doing, only craving calm and silence, Maureen drowns her sons. Two days later, Elliot returns.