Anne

Anne is revealed through Flora’s reaction to being named: an absent woman whose relationship with Flora remains so powerful that even Amaia’s accusation brings grief and fury to the surface. In Amaia’s reading, their passion was the strongest Flora had ever known and had helped carry her to the point of killing.

Identity Through Flora’s Response

Anne is not present in the confrontation between Amaia and Flora. Amaia identifies her indirectly, describing Flora’s interest in Fermín Montes as directed not toward him but toward a young, blonde, beautiful woman. Flora immediately forbids Amaia from naming Anne, insisting that Amaia knows nothing of their relationship. The sharpness of that refusal makes Anne’s importance unmistakable even as Flora guards the details of their life together.

A Passion That Still Hurts

Flora’s habitual disdain gives way to fury, then to visible anguish: her voice is choked and broken by pain and anger. Amaia sees her sister’s back bent as if under a terrible weight and her usual brightness fading. The bodily force of Flora’s response suggests that the relationship is not merely a concealed past attachment; its loss or memory continues to wound her.

Amaia interprets the intensity as evidence that Anne was the great passion of Flora’s life, more powerful than anything a man had made her feel. That conclusion belongs to Amaia’s reading of Flora, while Flora herself refuses to explain or define the relationship in this exchange. Her protest protects its privacy but also confirms how deeply the mention of Anne affects her.

Connection to Violence

Amaia’s interpretation links Flora’s passion for Anne to the violence surrounding the death of Víctor Oyarzabal. She considers the relationship so overwhelming that it still consumes Flora and had given her strength to go as far as killing. The scene does not establish Anne’s own role in the death; instead, it places the relationship within Amaia’s attempt to understand Flora’s motives and the emotional force behind her actions.

Anne’s narrative presence is therefore both intimate and withheld. She matters not through an account of her own actions, but through the contrast between Flora’s guarded silence and the grief that breaks through it. Amaia’s accusation makes that hidden attachment legible while leaving its particulars beyond Flora’s willingness to disclose.