Under questioning, Isabel drifts into talk of love, of intimacy, and of her Dalmatian, a disconcerting stream of consciousness that compels Chief Inspector María to gamble on an unorthodox approach in the pursuit of a murder solution.

Luisa, María, and Rai questioned Carmen with careful persistence. The recent discovery of her younger sister drowned in the bathtub cast a pall over the room, but it was Carmen's responses – hesitant, evasive – that stirred a growing unease…

A subtle strain entered the detectives' rapport as the interrogation drifted into ethically uncertain ground, the suspect’s history intimately woven with María’s own.