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Ernesto with the help of her maid Milagrinia, acting as a medium. However, the seances bring forth the apparitions of various people the family has wronged in the past. Shortly after a visitation by a spirit of an Indian rebel beheaded by Dona Maria's grandfather in a case of mistaken identity. Leon, Anna's lover, a fugitive is hidden in the cellar of the family home. Anna soon discovers the fact she is pregnant by Leon and unsuccessfully tries to hide the fact she had an affair from Erasmo. Ruiz, who had attempted to pursue Anna in the past, begins a secret relationship with Milagrinia who becomes pregnant as well. Anna elopes with Leon to Europe leaving only a letter behind. Milagrinia also marries an older man in an attempt to make sure the child isn't born out of wedlock. After twenty-four years, Ruiz returns to his ancestral home which is now in ruins from years of neglect and ponders his reasons for returning.
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in 1961 shortly before the colony's liberation by the Indian army and shown in the form of flashbacks, Anna Souza-Suarez is unwillingly engaged to a young man named Erasmo when her grandfather
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