Two years after their grandmother's death, Emma goes to Casay, where her elder sister Marina now lives in the old house, with Adriana. Emma is met by a young girl playing in the garden, among the flowers. The child in greeting, takes Emma's hand to her forehead.

Since Lola Marta's death, Marina had slowly changed. Released, but knitted to the land, she struggles to balance her stewardship with the new thinking coming from the mountains and spreading to the farms, and to the army's intrusion into their town. "You'd understand it better," she says to Emma.

"Lily," Marina calls to the child, "Tell your mother Emma is here." The lively eyes and bright smile, that was Adriana before she exchanged herself for Emma in an isolated hut by a river.

But for the grace of Adriana, Emma thinks.

And she knows she is bonded to the child by more than blood. As she and Marina are bound, to each other, and to their lands, by more than its harvest.