On a raft, next to an abandoned picnic, appear the body of a baby and his mother drowned, and the father with a shot to the temple. They soon find out that this is a successful family of Spanish immigrants who had decided to return to Spain.
Germán is arrested. At the police station it is brutally "interrogated" until he signed a statement admitting to killing the wife of Eduardo, the policeman who left in a wheelchair. Margarita and his companions fight to prove his innocence facing a wall of police corporatism that has already condemned the journalist.
Blas arrives from boarding school with bruised cheek. Paloma feared to have been harassed by their peers but the little ends up confessing that he has hit a teacher, the same also martyred Rodrigo in its infancy. The director sees an opportunity to settle accounts with the past.