After her repairs are complete, Roz is not set free. She is packaged like any other product and delivered to a place she has never seen: Hilltop Farm. The farm sits in quiet, rolling countryside — a sprawling collection of barns, sheds, fences, and muddy yards. To a robot shaped by life on a wild island, everything here is new. Hilltop is a dairy farm, and Roz has been sent to work. Her task is to help care for the livestock — a herd of cows who spend their days grazing in the green pasture and their evenings in the barn to be milked. The farm is run by a family who depend on the cows for their living. At first the animals are wary of the strange silver machine in their midst, just as the island creatures once were. For Roz, the farm is a place of contrasts. It is ordered and fenced where the island was wild and free; it is built by human hands where the island grew on its own. She feels a quiet disorientation, standing among the cows like a visitor from another world. She does her work carefully and well. But Hilltop Farm, however peaceful, is not her home — and Roz has not forgotten the island, or the son she left behind.