As the clandestine relationship with Jack continues, what the young woman cannot know is that Jack is married. His wife, Joanna Curtis, is a waitress at The Allegro. Suffering from severe eating disorders and overweight, Joanna has been depressed for some time now and is desperately trying to lose weight with new and ineffective diets, convinced that her husband is no longer in love with her. The relationship between Jack and Joanna, in fact, has lost the romanticism that distinguished the early years of their marriage; Joanna had gained weight and had gradually lost control both of her marriage and her weight. Brock, who frequently attends The Allegro, has known the woman for a long time and is constantly encouraging her not to get depressed. Brock, therefore, invites her to realize how beautiful she is and encourages her to buy a new dress and prepare a candlelight dinner for Jack in order to attract her husband's attention again. However, any attempt by Joanna to rekindle her relationship is interrupted by Jack, who is increasingly absent from the house, also because of his secret relationship with Peggy. When Jack comes home after his meeting in the library, excused invented to hide a date with Peggy, Joanna is so disappointed again by the man, who is too tired to do anything other than go to sleep. Less and less interested in making love with his wife, Jack then increasingly neglects Joanna, who despite Brock's efforts to cheer her up, lets herself go more and more, venting the only way she knows how, with food. The day of Joanna's birthday, to console the woman for yet another night when she is neglected by Jack is once again Brock; Jack, who has gone out with Peggy, remembers too late to give a gift to his wife, who is increasingly angry with the man and convinced that he has another more attractive woman.
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