"Requim for Evita" begins at Eva's father's funeral, a flashback to 1926. Eva and her family get off a bus to attend the funeral, and an argument breaks out between Eva's mother and Eva's father's wife. While they argue, Eva breaks away and runs into the church where her father's body lays. She enters the church to Latin singing. She walks slowly up the aisle, leans over to kiss her dead father's cheek, and is at that moment pulled away and out of the church, all the while screaming, "He's my papa! He's my papa!"

Flash forward now to 1952, Eva's own funeral. The turnout is astounding. It's impossible to distinguish any particular person from the crowd, it is so crowded. During the remainder of "Requiem for Evita," the casket, ensconsed in the Argentine flag, is carried into the building where she will lay in state. The line of people to view her body stretches for miles. Couples dance away their sorrow in a slow tango.

Then the music breaks, and we stay in the present for the next song.

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