Children are playing in the front yard. The twin boys from next door, Tyrone and Terry, are enjoying the tire swing, while the narrator and her cousin, Cathy, leap and dance on a frozen puddle. The narrator’s grandmother is on the back porch, ladling rum over the Christmas cakes she has baked. Nearby, in a meadow close to the house, two men have been shooting film all morning with their movie camera. They claim to be from the county and say they are making a film related to food stamps. Granny has asked them to leave the property and protested their filming, but although they have moved a bit farther away, they continue to film.

Granddaddy Cain returns home from the woods, where he has hunted a chicken hawk. The two filmmakers record his approach. Granny asks him to remove the men from her flower bed.

Granddaddy Cain extends his hand for the camera. Without resistance, the men hand it over, explaining they are filming for the county. One of the men politely asks for the camera back, using the word "please." Granddaddy then smashes the camera. The cameraman gathers the broken pieces. Granddaddy tells the men that he and Granny own the property and that they are standing in her flower bed. The men retreat.