The film becomes color once again as it is now in the postwar time frame, as you hear Aleksei (You never see him) talking with his mother over the phone inside his apartment while the camera roams through several rooms of the apartment. You hear Aleksei tell his mother Maria how he just had a dream of himself as a child, and then he asks his mother when his father abandoned the both of them. She tells him it was in 1935 and Aleksei asks, "And the fire? Remember when the barn burned down?" Maria tells him that was 1935 as well and suddenly his mother informs Aleksei that her longtime friend Liza who worked with her at the printing-house has just died.