Summary

After Amadito leaves Imbert at Imbert’s cousin’s house, Imbert passes between the houses of several friends and relatives, staying at each place only briefly. From a distant relative, he learns that the SIM has arrested his cousin. In a last-ditch attempt, he calls an Italian diplomat named Rainieri he used to be friends with. He gets a female host to call Rainieri using the maiden name of his wife. Upon hearing the name, Rainieri immediately sends a car. It turns out Imbert’s wife and daughter were already in hiding at the diplomat’s house, and so he guessed from the wife’s name that the caller must be connected to Imbert.

Imbert is briefly reunited with his family before he is taken to the house of a young diplomat named Cavaglieri who agrees to house him on condition that he has...