What is the meaning of 'with' in the below sentence? What relationship does it indicate?

The story begins with the meeting of two businesswomen.


OED

with Definition 37(e)

After begin or end and words of like sense, in various shades of meaning: indicating

(a) that which constitutes the beginning or end, i.e. the initial or final part, element, stage, proceeding, etc. (after a personal subject and before a gerund now by, as in A. 37a(b) above);

(b) a person or thing acted upon or treated first or last (coinciding with 9);

(c) (after begin, originate, etc.) the agent or source from which something takes its rise (allied to 11).

Without context, the above is the closest definition available in a dictionary.