Daniel returns home late to find the remnants of a dinner for two and assumes his father may have entertained Merceditas. In his dark bedroom, Daniel discovers Fermín asleep on Daniel’s bed, bruised and snoring, having been invited to dinner by Daniel’s father and overcome by drowsiness afterward. Daniel lets Fermín keep the bed and settles in the dining room armchair, trying to push away the image of the coffins from the Aldaya crypt by thinking of Bea instead, but he finally falls into an unusually deep sleep.

In the morning, a furious storm floods the streets. At 7:30 the telephone rings, and Daniel answers in urgent hope that it is Bea; a silent pause follows and the caller hangs up. Daniel convinces himself Bea was interrupted while trying to break her father’s curfew, but the unanswered call leaves him anxious as his father urges him to eat breakfast.

The rain continues all day, and the neighborhood suffers a power cut until noon. Leaks begin in the shop, and Fermín offers to borrow buckets from Merceditas upstairs, but Daniel’s father forbids him to go. To steady himself, Daniel tells Fermín about the previous day’s events, but he deliberately withholds what he saw in the crypt.

That night, Daniel walks to Bea’s building under the pretext of stretching his legs and watches the apartment windows from across the street. He sees Mr. Aguilar and Mrs. Aguilar moving inside, but Bea never appears. Daniel returns home near midnight, cold and heavy with dread, repeating to himself that Bea will call tomorrow.

Bea does not call the next day, or the next, and the silence stretches through the entire week. Daniel frames it as the longest and last week of his life, ending with the certainty that within seven days he will be dead.