A year earlier, Camila confronts her family to follow her dream of becoming a journalist, fleeing Guadalajara. Back in 1985, an hour has passed since the earthquake. At the General Hospital there are signs of life within the rubble. Gabriela tries to return to Tlatelolco amidst all the chaos, anguished for her children. Camila finds some seamstresses trapped inside a maquila factory.

Gabriela faces her past, as well as the problems that hit her now fractured marriage. Three hours have passed since the earthquake. At the hospital, Angel finds in Pepin a new lease of life to get closer to the babies and nurses under the rubble. Gabriel and Camila, each in their own way, make their way to the fallen building in Tlatelolco. Alberto and Regina approach the surface.