The main character, a 13 year-old boy, lives with his abusive father and his three uncles, all of whom are alcoholics. He sleeps in a room where one of them frequently has sex with women. At some point, his father forces him to put his pants down and to compare his penis with his, in order to remind him that they are father and son. Later, all the men go to a bar with the main character's cousin (a girl about his age). A man jokes about the fact that she is too young to be the girlfriend of one of the adults.