Sira Quiroga, a young seamstress pushed by fate into a risky compromise in which patterns and fabrics of her profession will become the facade of something much murkier and transcendent.

Rosalinda gets a reporter, Marcus Logan, to help her mother escape in exchange for an interview with Beigbeder. Marcus invites Sira to an elite event.

Sira is developing an attraction towards Marcus. Rosalinda appears to be very ill, and when Sira visits she says it’s because her husband has arrived.