YasminNarcisaNarcisa was not a woman prone to fits of anger, but her growing bitterness following Yasmin's mysterious disappearance had cracked her and begun to erode her normal temperament as the cracked soil of a barren field. She had become prone to visions and began showing signs of strange behavior. Eva and Officer Santos Sosa had married two years after the unfortunate day he and Detective Mendoza announced the suspicious death of his sister, Yasmin. Eva had joined forces with Santos in seeking the truth about his mysterious accident. During this time they had fallen in love and married to Narcisa's disappointment. He had hoped that his only remaining daughter would marry someone with more money. Their son was born a year later. That same year, with the baby in their arms, they felt the need to return to Narcisa's farm to treat her worsening health. Narcisa's constant insistence that her heart was weak and failing baffled doctors, who could find no medical evidence to support her claims. Instead, it was her mental health that had begun to show signs of instability, but Eva's loyalty prevailed. With the belief that his heart had weakened and the feeling that his time on this earth would soon come to an end, he wanted to visit the old farm that had once belonged to Jose once again. Narcisa had always expected that she would spend her final years living in the house she had longed for ever since Federico asked for Yasmin's hand in marriage. The bitterness caused by the events that changed her destiny filled her with anger that morning. He crossed the field that separated their homes, walking with an uncertain pace. The ceaseless summer victory... in the middle of the paper..." he shouted over and over, until everything calmed down. When Eva came to bring her mother inside to share dinner with the family, she hoped that Narcisa had calmed down and she fell asleep in the chair as she usually did. Only this time Narcisa was not at her chair. Eva, worried, noticed the delicate footprints left by her mother's slippers leading into the river. In a panic, she called Santos and Ofelia he dove into the dark waters, but only managed to find Narcisa's slippers that were stuck in the mud near the edge, and her silk robe caught on one of the sharp rocks that rippled the surface of the water like a stain of blood. Days passed before the police found her body along the river, naked and swollen. Eva was tormented by not having noticed how agitated her mother had been that day. She tried to convince her that this was Narcisa's will.