Nearly 40 years later, she leaves Cape Verde for Lisbon to find him, only to discover that he died the previous week and she missed the funeral. Her character visits his apartment in the slums. After a while, she meets the priest who presided at the funeral, whom she recognized from years before.[4] Varela and the priest, played by Ventura, debate the nature of humanity and her husband, and she frequently delivers somber monologues directed at her husband's ghost.[5]