Second Coming

Jacqueline Trent (Jackie), a social worker, learns that she is eight weeks pregnant. Meanwhile her son, Jerome (JJ), distractingly draws symbols of wings on the misty windows at school. (Other bird symbols subtly appear throughout the film.) His German teacher asks JJ in German, "Which color is the bus, red or black... which color is it now?" Later Lauryn, his older schoolmate, says she thinks German isn't even a proper language, dismissing the teacher's ambiguously racist comments while trying to comfort JJ. Later JJ feeds a surprisingly friendly magpie and subsequently he shows Lauryn how he can get another wild bird to hop into his hands. The bird becomes injured when Lauryn handles it too roughly. JJ tries to rehabilitate the injured bird but it dies. He solemnly buries it in the backyard.