once in the village, isabel at first doesn't feel able to meet cholo, who works as a baker. apparently, he has told the villagers that his family died in a car accident. when isabel meets cholo, the man appears not to recognize her. during the film the choice of cholo is explained: he vanished from buenos aires trying to forget the trauma of the years of the dictatorship, when he and isabel were communist militants, and he was imprisoned and tortured for a period. in the end, after a long letter written by sonia to her father, cholo decides to resume contact with the three women.