Don Martín and Hortencia manage to escape from the sanatorium. Bustillo orders the guards to search for them, but they can't find them. Gabriela regrets not listening to her daughters' warnings.

Don Martín is happy; after so much suffering, he is reunited with his granddaughters. Gabriela confronts Fernando and Dínora—she can't stand the confinement anymore and wants to know about her father and her daughters.