Scene 2 — The Apartment Interior. A small room lined with jars labelled in neat, tremulous handwriting: lavender, motor, winter. Lilu/Julia catalogues these like a botanist of memory. She pours oil into a shallow bowl; light refracts, a miniature world. A cassette player clicks; an old voice reads a postcard she kept. The soundtrack is a low synth that swells like tidewater.