A mother advertises her son, Sam Shaw, to women on the street, offering him as a potential husband with a 'seven-day return policy'. Sam arrives and confronts his mother, embarrassed by her actions. As a woman approaches Sam and speaks to him, she immediately breaks out in a severe, full-body itch. Sam explains this is his 'serious condition': he gives women an allergic reaction. As his mother laments their family line ending, Sam resigns himself to being single, leaving his desperate mother's plea for a grandchild unresolved.