On her wedding day, a woman in her wedding dress vents to a man in the room, distressed about being forced to marry Andy, a man she calls a fool and a mama's boy. She reveals she has no choice due to her family's arrangements. The man listening realizes she is not his intended bride, Anna, but another woman being coerced into the marriage. Their tense confrontation is interrupted by a call for a tea ceremony, addressed to 'Mr. and Mrs. Laurent.' The man, identified as Andy's uncle Julien, coldly instructs the bride to remove her veil, leaving their immediate fate unresolved as they face the ceremony.