The son asks his father to explain politics. The father uses their family roles as an analogy, with the father as the capitalist who brings home money, the mother as the government who administers the money, the grandfather as the union who watches everything, and their maid as the working class. The son is told he represents the people, and his younger brother in diapers represents the future. That night, the son wakes up to his brother crying and cannot wake his mother. He finds his father having an affair with the maid while the grandfather watches. The next day, the son summarizes that in politics, the capitalist abuses the working class, the union watches without helping, the government sleeps, the people are ignored,