The lonely man, also known as Grandpa, is the main protagonist whom you navigate and solve puzzles with in the game (the story’s secondary narrator). He is torn by grief over his young granddaughter’s suicide. She was bullied in school and ended up jumping off a building. Afterwards, the murder-suicide of his own son, known as the Knight, was committed by his daughter-in-law, also known as the Snake.

Prior to the murder-suicide event, the Mom desperately struggles with her grief over her own daughter’s suicide. She blames Grandpa’s son, her husband, for the suicide. A suicide note from their daughter reveals the mental pain of her short life, reading, “I just can’t do this anymore.”

The son ends up adopting a blonde female child of another family after her parents died in an apartment building fire. It is later revealed through a photo, that the son (the Knight) was friends with the father of the blonde girl (the Flower). As she grows up, the Flower (who is the primary narrator of the story) becomes suspicious, of her parents who constantly fight. Her adopted mother, is constantly cold and cruel to the little blonde girl, as she is unable to process the grief of her biological daughter’s suicide. The Flower’s adopted father struggles to connect with her. He works long hours and is rarely home during her childhood. However, he often brings her gifts and tries to decorate her room nicely. The Flower, sensing something is off, imagines that her parents were child abductors. Still in this part of the story The little girl has no idea that she is adopted.

The Flower, while searching for other abducted children, discovers a walled-off cellar hidden behind a fireplace. It contains old musty toys that belonged to her deceased older sister (moms real child). The stuffed toy rabbit she found in a closet originally belonged to her elder sister as well.

Her adopted parents have never told her the truth. but after discovering this hidden cellar, it seems that the Flower and her adopted father, the Knight, are finally able to connect and reconcile, which infuriates her adopted mother. The mentally broken mother wants only to “join” her dead biological daughter in death, and she wants her husband to come with her.

One evening, the mother (the Snake) grabs a knife and cold-bloodedly murders her husband, then takes her own life, sparing the Flower. In her final moments, she calls Grandpa to confess the atrocity she has committed. Grandpa rushes over to their home, but he is too late to save his son. In the aftermath of the murder-suicide, the Flower discovers the address of her biological parents’ burned-down apartment building. The mother no doubt finally told the little girl the truth before she passed away. Grandpa catches up with his adopted granddaughter, the Flower, in the charred remains of her real parents’ home, where he saves her from falling off a collapsing balcony.