The couple, Nicholas and Mary, find out the cause of family troubles. It turns out that the mother confessed to Maria before her death that she was not her own daughter. Maria recalls the life story of her adoptive parents. They fell in love with each other back in the 1950s, as teenagers when they were children in an orphanage. Christina confesses to Edgar that she is the daughter of the repressed, and Edgar says that he does not remember his parents at all. An orphanage educator overhears their conversation and informs the director.