Both Lynette and Freda are haunted by their past memories... Freda constantly tries to suppress her feelings for her first love, Hayden Brasspole, who had vanished into thin air the day she broke the news of her imminent engagement to Toby Kelp. Lynette has mixed emotions towards her draconian father, Lincoln who constantly indoctrinated her about her mother's vile actions. Lynette's only memory of her mother lies in three music scores, handwritten by her mother before she left their house. She clutches the manuscripts as if they were her life and at a later part of the story, these manuscripts were the key documents to her finding her mother.

Freda's mother, a victim herself, thinks of the life she would have led had she not married Freda's father. Her first husband was killed before her eyes and her firstborn son was snatched away from her when he was barely a month old. She was forced into marrying Freda's father and had never forgived him since.

A strange friendship develops between Freda and Lynette, both sharing coffee over late night chats about their lives, as Toby engages in a sexual frenzy with Betty, his university sweetheart and now, an intern at the firm which he works. He knows it is only a matter of time before his father summons his eternal prescence in Kelp Incorporated, but for now, he was happy in his day job which gave him a perfectly legitimate reason to stay back late at nights riding his Betty in the comfort of his office.