In a tense household confrontation, Xavier menaces a woman, Mavis, accused of poisoning their crippled father, Leon, after a packet of rat poison is found. Relatives demand she explain the missing poison and insist she sell the children, Xavier and Jenny. Mavis protests she doesn't know them and pleads innocence while family members taunt her and move to seize the kids. Leon interrupts, saying the illness comes from poison inside him and that someone kept him alive, which complicates the accusation. The household fractures as plans to sell the children proceed and Mavis's fate remains unresolved.