On one of these trips to a club, just after violence flares up again in the city, she encounters a roadblock on her way home and is forced to take an alternate route through a poorer area. While driving slowly she is distracted and does not see a young boy playing in the road and hits him. The father runs out to confront her while the child is being picked up, and in a panic, Mona locks the car door and drives off. The boy’s father jumps after her on his motorcycle and chases her, managing to get through the gate to her building as she is entering. Akram hears a commotion and comes out with a rifle, but the father does not stop, and Akram fatally shoots him. Mona is devastated but does not tell Akram where she has been or what happened. Akram’s neighbor who is well connected with the police takes care of the body without reporting it and keeps the motorcycle.