 The entire episode takes place at the local polling place. Aurora and Ana are in a line of voters. They complain about the time other voters are taking and feud with those before and after them in line. One woman announces that she will save the State; on leaving the voting both she says she voted for every candidate on the ballot. Once it s time for the sisters to vote, the poll watcher asks Aurora for her voter registration, or "electoral title". Aurora responds that the titles she s been elected to include Miss Biriguí 1931, Miss Springtime in Ibitinga in 1931, etc. He reads her name, and she interrupts him before he can read her birth date. Aurora leaves the booth to ask if she can instead of an x, mark a cross, because she s very religious. They then play odds-and-evens to pick candidates. Aurora warns Ana that the voting booth has fleas, and then advises the poll watcher that he should wear "less horrible suits." Those in line behind the sisters complain of the delay they re causing and the poll watcher threatens to take measures. One man says he s a marshmallow for not having done something already, saying the two old ladies are doing whatever they please. Aurora asks him to repeat that, and when Ana comes out of the booth tells him that the "gorilla" has called them old ladies. He says old women, and crazy old women at that. The sisters attack the man.