Rita does makeup and prepares Consuelo, who carefully reviews the details of that last act of flirtation. In the privacy of her room, she says goodbye like all the elders of this town, where death is just another moment in life, an event announced and expected.
10-year-old Santiago's parents, who is hardly at home, use their conflict to reproach each other for desertions and failures, transforming the solution to their son's problem into a simple fight of power between them.