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Avelino hesitates. Luz is still his secret — but his family is struggling. His father is ill; his siblings need tuition. Luz’s family would never accept a poor poet.

A young journalist asks him: "Sir, what is the greatest love story you’ve ever known?"

He accepts Cita’s offer.

For a year, he rides in her black Cadillac. She introduces him to power brokers. She laughs at his jokes, touches his arm too long. One night, after champagne and a speech he wrote that swayed a vote, she kisses him. "You are not just a poet, Avelino. You are a weapon. Let me be your sheath."

Avelino finds Luz lighting a candle. He has not seen her in eighteen months. She is thinner, her hands still beautiful, but she no longer plays piano. Avelino hesitates

She replies: "Then stop talking. Just stay."

He looks at Luz. She pretends not to listen, but her fingers stop moving. Luz’s family would never accept a poor poet

"I joined a convent school," she says. "Not to be a nun. To learn silence. Because you taught me that words are not enough."

She approaches him: "You speak like a man who wants to change things. That is either brave or foolish. I like both." She introduces him to power brokers