Guardian Rock

Of course Marta will chivalrously carry Fina’s suitcase down the stairs.

Fina feels like she is forgetting something. Um, yes, Fina. Your wife?

And again, Fina flirts to deflect. Drop by overnight if I forgot anything. You’d have an excuse in front of the neighbors. But no work talk.

All winks and fun, but that's where it remains. And now they stand - and this hruts the most - exactly where they stood on the morning of Marta’s fateful marriage to Pelayo. Exactly where a tousled Fina hurried in, with a bouquet of flowers from their garden, exactly where they told each other that nothing could change their love for each other.

And now, the bouquet is just a painting in the background at a distance, and Fina is leaving.

Fina gets a closing conversation with Damián that is a farewell speech. It is touching upon her parents, her growth, her independence. How her father would be proud of her. How there is nothing to forgive in terms of Santiago, how Fina has suffered enough. How Damián would have wanted to protect her from the canalla Pelayo. How Damián hopes that Fina will be able to forgive him for being unable to protect her. It’s s perfect speech, and it feels like an apotheosis of family love (there is no bigger nod to the romantic love between Marta and Fina or Fina's role as a daughter-in-law - perhaps not yet?) and of Fina as part of the de la Reina family life.

Fina is ready to move on.

The Sound Department does a quiet variant of Fina’s Home theme in the background alongside Damián's speech, a variants which shifts into the hopeful new Major variant on their love theme as Fina thanks Damián for letting her be who she is – that is, accepting her being gay (00:19:20, in the Mafin Drive Cut).

Marta is melting into a puddle over the entire “wife and father-in-law” exchange, the Hopeful theme is even turned into a string sound sphere. Family space!

And then, for Fina leaving, the Sound Department segues into the Original True Flutes, those of awakening love and realization (00:19:48), as Fina walks out, and it hurts.