When she was seventeen, she met him again at a party in Sarginesco, thanks to his gramophone, that she still keeps. Because, at this point in the story, the two guys get married and she moves to Sarginesco. A journey back, paths that repeat themselves. Raffaella and Pier Angelo are born here and Gregorio cultivates other people's land.
But Lina is not a woman to knit by the fireplace and when, due to family events - uncle Giuseppe, perhaps out of jealousy, had taken the kitchen away from his wife and brother to give it to others. Her father called her back to the 4Venti, she did not hesitate and returned to him.
In Sarginesco, the children remain with their father and aunt Rosa, the teacher who also had a painful history behind her.
It had happened that the family of her husband, a wealthy mining engineer and owner of Corte Mainolda, had claimed to manage the wages of the bride - yes, coincidences repeat themselves like a prism. She, independent and proud, had returned to her parents. Now, at the age of sixty, she acts as a mother to her great-grandchildren and later, widowed and heir to the engineer, she will be the one to pass on the property to them.