The doctor tells the boy that his mother is dead and that he is too sick to go to the hospital. The boy asks the doctor if he has a friend who can take care of him. The doctor says that he does not have one, and the boy asks if there is anyone like him in the world who would care for him. When the doctor tells him that there is no one like him, the boy says that it is all a joke. He wants to live, he wants to be with his mother, and he wants the doctor to cure him of his illness.