The survivors of a plane crash are stranded in a mysterious, remote tropical island in the South Pacific. Among the survivors there is Jack, a doctor, Charlie, a rock star, Sayid, an Iraqi military man, Locke, a mysterious man who used to be paralyzed before the crash but is miraculously cured after the crash and Claire, a pregnant Australian girl who later gives birth to her baby on the island.

The show alternates from the present story to flashbacks of the lives of the various characters on the island. This scene is a flashback on the background story of Desmond, a mysterious Scottish man who has been living on the island for years before the crash.

The flashback is about Desmond joining a monastery and becoming a monk right before getting married to a girl he had been dating for over 6 years. Afraid of the commitment, Desmond claims that he received a "calling". In this scene Desmond, after getting drunk by himself on one of the bottles of wine that the monastery produces, is confronted by Brother Campbell, who had welcomed him in the monastery. Brother Campbell tells him he is done being a monk...