Early morning and everybody leaves home to work.
Jeremias, the gardener, hears the telephone ringing in the house.
The front neighbour has a message. Conceição, the maid, called: she won’t be able to come today, Jeremias has to make lunch for Boris.
Water falls from the window. the washing machine is not working properly.
Boris arrives from school. Jeremias doesn’t have the key.