The protagonist goes on a date with someone who assumes that she will have sex with him because of her reputation for being promiscuous and because he treated her to an expensive dinner. He gets quite rough and argumentative with her in a way that makes her fearful, but he ultimately allows her to escape. Prior to the events of the book, a prominent community elder molested the protagonist when she was 15. The narrative doesn’t go into detail about the molestation itself, but the protagonist’s father didn’t believe her when she told him what happened and instead believed that she tempted the community elder. The elder uses his status as a pious individual and the protagonist’s history of consensual sexual interactions to turn the community against her. There are several instances in the book when the elder threatens to further humiliate the protagonist if she tells others what happened, and he and others insinuate that she is unclean, broken, and not worthy of consideration. There is even a moment where the elder implies that he would rape the protagonist’s mother or that he had done so in the past.