Bea’s Family Tries to Stop the Logging and Is Taken Away

Bea’s Family Tries to Stop the Logging and Is Taken Away is a confrontation over the family’s chestnut trees that escalates from an urgent rush to the forest into a failed blockade, a dispute at the sawmill, and the arrest of Débora and León. The decisive reversal is that the trees were not being taken under a newly improvised order from Diego: Bea’s father had sold them seven months earlier. By the time Bea accepts this, however, the trees—including the one supporting her unfinished treehouse—have been felled, and her brother and sister are in custody.

The alarm and the first blockade

The crisis begins with a message that the chestnut trees are being cut down. Bea dresses quickly, gets into the van, calls for Débora to hurry, and finds León already there. The family’s urgency is bound up with both the grove and Bea’s treehouse: the chestnut she is building on is not merely timber to her, but the site of a project that has given her hope after the cancellation of her wedding.

At the forest, Bea sees two excavators uprooting rotten chestnuts while workers with chainsaws cut living trees, including her chosen tree. She runs toward them until she can barely breathe, then puts herself in front of a saw operator. His hearing protection initially prevents him from noticing her; once he stops, he warns her to move before she is hurt. Bea insists that the tree is private property and points to the lumber already used in her construction. The operator counters that the trees belong to the sawmill. The clash is therefore immediate and material: Bea treats the tree as hers and as the foundation of a house in progress, while the crew treats it as part of a purchased timber supply.

Bea persuades the operator to use his radio to call a five-minute pause while the dispute is addressed. The excavators and the other chainsaw operators stop temporarily. She asks León to confirm that the chestnuts belong to their family, and he does. That shared belief gives Bea’s protest a sense of certainty, but it is not yet evidence of ownership. When the crew explains that the site is near forest track seven, Bea learns that the surrounding timber is allocated to the sawmill: suitable logs will become boards, and the rest will go to the biomass plant.

Escalation and the dispute with Diego

Bea assumes Diego is responsible for the timing of the operation and sends León to find his Civil Guard colleagues. She tells her siblings to prevent further cutting, even if they have to climb the trees. She also asks Débora to contact the anti-plant association and bring the press, hoping to make the confrontation public. Débora hesitates because she does not want attention on her own situation. Bea acknowledges that concern but tells her to protect the trees; León and Débora climb separate trees while Bea leaves for the sawmill.

On the way, Bea’s anger gathers around the belief that Diego is retaliating because she would not build his daughter’s treehouse first. She reasons that he has destroyed her own project after she asked him to wait until it was finished. At the sawmill, she takes the reception phone and demands that Diego come down, presenting herself as the person whose life he has just ruined. When he appears, she accuses him of ordering the destruction of her treehouse. Diego denies knowing what she means and explains that he handles timber purchases, while his father-in-law oversees the felling and the workers.

The dispute changes when Diego shows Bea the contract. It records that her father sold the trees to the sawmill seven months earlier: usable trees were to be paid for and turned into lumber, while the remainder was to be used for the biomass plant. Bea recognizes that her treehouse was not yet being built when the agreement was signed. The document substantially weakens her accusation that Diego arranged the logging in revenge, and his account of who directs extraction sounds plausible to her. He asks her to apologize for arriving in a rage, frightening the receptionist, and making accusations without proof. Bea’s confidence falters, though the explanation does not settle what is happening back at the grove.

Arrest, loss, and release

Débora calls from the forest with news that the Civil Guard has removed the siblings from the trees and detained them. León is fighting with Jacobo, who is putting him in handcuffs. The brief pause has ended: the crew is cutting again. Bea takes this as evidence that Diego was merely buying time and confronts him again, while he denies deliberately delaying her. She leaves the sawmill uncertain whether she has misread him or whether he has made her doubt what she witnessed.

When Bea returns, the chestnuts are already on the ground, including the tree on which she had been building. The treehouse was only a few days into construction, but its destruction feels to her like the loss of a completed project. She compares the disappointment to imagining a future with someone and then watching that possibility disappear. The treehouse had mattered in the weeks after her broken engagement because it gave her something to believe in; its destruction makes the loss feel larger than the unfinished structure itself.

Débora and León are in a Civil Guard van, handcuffed and furious. León shouts at the guards and workers and directs particular anger at Jacobo, who stands apart, appearing hurt, embarrassed, and angry in turn. León has taken photographs on his phone, even while handcuffed, and argues for taking the matter to court and the press. Débora is less eager to involve the press. Bea stops the family’s escalation: she says they will not pursue the matter because the trees belonged to the sawmill and had been bought from their father.

Bea then asks Jacobo whether he can arrange the siblings’ release. He says that if the sawmill workers do not press charges, he can persuade his colleagues to drop the matter. Bea approaches the operator who felled her tree and secures his agreement not to make a complaint. She returns to Jacobo with the news; after speaking with another officer, he signals agreement and the siblings are released. Débora protests that the guards had no charges against them, but Bea urges her to let the argument go rather than risk spending the night in a cell.

What the confrontation leaves behind

The release does not reverse the felling or restore Bea’s treehouse. The family’s initial claim of ownership gives way to the documentary fact of their father’s sale, and Bea chooses to stop challenging the operation rather than pursue a legal or press campaign. The episode turns on the difference between a deeply felt claim and a legally consequential one: the trees are still experienced as the family’s, but the signed agreement gives the sawmill the right to take them.

The ending is practical rather than triumphant. Débora asks about the lumber, and Bea says they can collect it the next day because the workers have promised not to touch it. Her sister questions whether that promise can be trusted. After securing her siblings’ release, Bea takes them home and tells their mother what has happened. The grove is lost, the family’s protest has been interrupted by arrest, and the remaining wood becomes the only immediate matter they can still try to protect.