As the narrator and Pascal walk along an open road toward the commune, a beat-up Renault approaches from behind. The narrator is relieved it is not the white Citroën panel truck she fears. The driver is a middle-aged woman with a lopsided bun, a faded gecko tattoo, and a clumsy command of her clutch.

The woman drives at walking pace alongside them, shouting accusations at Pascal. She challenges his activist credentials, citing her own participation in the Notre-Dame-des-Landes struggle—the water cannons, the farmers' tractor blockade, the defense of the Rohanne Forest—and mocks Pascal's privileged upbringing, describing him being pushed in a stroller by a working-class nanny. Pascal refuses to look at her, walking on with a faint smile that frames her as deranged. The narrator silently observes how the woman's unkempt appearance and middle-aged fury make it easier for Pascal to dismiss her. She eventually lurches away.

In the silence the narrator deliberately maintains, Pascal feels compelled to explain. He identifies her as Nadia Derain, a veteran of the Nantes ZAD movement who came to Le Moulin last fall. He claims the commune tried to work with her but her constant self-aggrandizing stories and argumentative energy ground them down, leading to a vote to expel her. Now she refuses to leave the area and harasses Pascal wherever he goes. He notes that Jérôme suspects she is a police informant, though Pascal himself doubts it.

Pascal frames Nadia's behavior as the mourning of a rejected outsider, expressing hope her anger will burn out. When the narrator asks where Nadia went after leaving the commune, Pascal merely shrugs dismissively. The narrator privately concludes that Pascal simply dislikes Nadia, and she silently agrees Nadia is not a cop—quietly distancing herself from Pascal's self-serving account.