The woman with whom the Narrator shares an apartment in the Schöneberg section of Berlin, Lena is, after the break-up, terse. When they speak they talk each other further apart. The Narrator sees Lena in a dream in which he falls overboard from a boat before he can touch her. In real life, he phones her in the morning, says that he has dreamed about her, and asks to see her. She is busy packing for a trip.