Armen is a nine year old boy who wakes up from a dream in a shabby apartment in New York. His parents are divorced and today his mother is in a hurry to get to an audition. She makes her last preparations and tells Armen to stay at home, do his homework, wash the dishes, and wait for his father’s call. His father works in the World Trade Center. His parents appreciates his efforts to save birds from hitting into buildings by cutting out color stickers for windows. But at the same time, neither of his parents have a real connection with their son.

Armen is left alone in their apartment where he waits for needed attention from his parents. Today, he rebels from doing homework, breaks a dirty dish, and sticks his tongue out at his mother’s picture of Jesus. When he tries to call his father, the only answer he receives is from an automated machine.

Looking out his window at the Twin Towers, Armen sees a girl playing a hopscotch down on the street. He makes a connection with her by releasing a paper plane out of the window. The two children proceed to make faces and smile at each other for a while, before the little girl finally invites Armen to come down to play with her. But then, his father calls. Armen answers the phone to hear his father tell him that he can’t pick him up today. By the time Armen, frustrated, returns to the window, the girl is gone.

In his resentment, Armen looks at Twin towers imagining his paper plane heading to them.