- The narrator sees a beautiful baby girl who was abandoned in the street. The child was wearing a little blue dress with the letters R-O-S-E on the collar, like Baby Moses in the Bible.
- In the city, people throw out their children anywhere because they can' afford to feed them, which was entirely against in Ville Rose.
- She dreams about her mother and those women who had all died before she was born: her great grandmother Eveline who was killed by Dominican soldiers at the Massacre River ("1937"), her grand-mother Défilé who died in the prison ("1937"), and her godmother Lili ("Wall of Fire Rising"), claim her to do some good for the child.
- She brings the child back to her maid's room with carrying her when she does works.
- Monsieur and Madame talks about her: guessing she is one of those "manbos", stupid people who think that they have a spell to make themselves invisible and hurt other people behind her.
- She tells the child her story with her husband and the Dominican despite the child does not react to her.
- Because of the baby's smell, she baths her more and more often using the pool. She tends to return Rose back to where she found, but she feels the responsibility for the baby.
- She outs the baby in a shack behind her house, watching her decompose. When the baby begins to attract flies, she decides to bury her and gives her a last bath. She buries he in the garden behind the house.
- As she lowers the baby in to the hole, the Dominican comes. He does not give her a chance to explain but accuses her of kill and eat the child and holds her in order to prevent her from running away.
- She gives up to explain anymore but just stands there with the man and the child.
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