Dee is the daughter of a poor woman. Dee never liked the home in which she lived or the disrespectability of being poor. Dee's mother always knew she was different and she worked hard to send Dee away from their world. One day Dee returns and she has a new name and a new opinion of her mother's lifestyle. Dee has embraced her African heritage and she has taken an African name to reflect this. Dee takes from her mother parts of a butter churn in order to decorate her home, never stopping to think of how her mother is to make her butter without these objects.