This story is narrated from the point of view of a curious little boy who while playing every day for the past 2 years, watches a woman standing on the window.
This woman is his neighbor who has been waiting for her husband, who left for secret naval mission 3 years ago. Later the news of his missing ship was sent to the house with no further information. They had been consoling the families of those young officers, by saying that they have sent a team to find the ship.
Years have passed and yet the woman is not convinced that her husband might have died. She is undergoing clinical depression and because of her extreme emotions and reactions no relative or neighbors ever talk to her. Each time she snaps at them in anger and tells them that her husband will return some day.
One day the boy is playing outside when he sees a postman going to her house. Curious as the boy has always been, he runs and climbs the window to see what’s happening. The woman receives a letter from the Navy department. She grabs the letter from the postman and starts dancing like a mad woman in excitement. The boy looks perplex as the woman shrieks and laughs and dances. He gets down the window and runs to her door.
As he enters he notices the woman hanging from the fan. The letter is unopened and lying on the doorstep.
She commits suicide before knowing what the letters said. …black…
At the end the camera focuses on the letter on the table. Her husband was to return in a few months. His mission was a success.
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