Pa Salt dies of a heart attack while Maia is on vacation in London.

Maia returns to Atlantis and learns that Pa Salt has already been buried at sea according to his own instructions.

Lawyer Georg Hoffman presents an armillary sphere engraved with personal coordinates and quotations for each of the six daughters.

Maia reads her sealed letter from Pa Salt and discovers a small triangular soapstone tile enclosed inside.

Maia impulsively books a flight to Brazil after receiving a voicemail from her ex-boyfriend Zed Eszu.

Maia visits Casa das Orquídeas in Rio and is rebuffed by the elderly resident, but Yara hands her a bundle of old letters.

Floriano Quintelas meets Maia at the Christ the Redeemer statue and identifies her tile as part of the statue's robe.

Bel attends her lavish 18th birthday party at the Copacabana Palace Hotel and is introduced to Gustavo Aires Cabral.

Gustavo proposes to Bel on Corcovado Mountain, promising to allow her European trip if she accepts.

Bel meets sculptor's assistant Laurent Brouilly in Paul Landowski's Paris studio and he persuades Landowski to let him sculpt her.

Bel and Laurent kiss for the first time after rescuing an injured child sleeping on the street outside the studio.

Bel and Gustavo are married in a grand cathedral ceremony while Laurent's ship arrives in Rio on the same night.

Bel secretly visits Laurent's apartment and the two begin a passionate physical affair.

Yara finishes telling Maia Bel's full story, confirming that Beatriz is Maia's grandmother and that Cristina was her troubled mother.

Maia decides to move to Rio after Floriano leaves a note at Atlantis declaring his love and enclosing Bel's inscription.

Pa Salt's sudden death sends Maia racing home to Atlantis, where his lawyer delivers mysterious coordinates pointing to Rio de Janeiro. Maia travels to Brazil and meets historian-novelist Floriano Quintelas, who helps her connect a soapstone tile and a crumbling mansion to the aristocratic Aires Cabral family. Meanwhile, Bel's story unfolds in 1927 Rio, where her father's social ambitions push her into an engagement with Gustavo Aires Cabral and then a revelatory trip to Paris. In Paris, Bel falls for sculptor Laurent Brouilly, a love she carries home to a loveless marriage, resuming the affair after Laurent arrives in Rio with the Cristo's head and hands. Maia's grandmother Yara finally reveals the full truth about Bel, Beatriz, and Maia's troubled mother Cristina, closing the gap between past and present. Armed with this knowledge and a love of her own, Maia chooses to stop hiding and move to Rio to begin a new life with Floriano.

The headline events driving Maia's search and Bel's love story.

Maia's five sisters gather one by one at Atlantis and discover that Pa Salt's study has been locked per his final instructions.

Ally arrives unexpectedly at Atlantis, revealing she spotted Pa Salt's boat at sea on the very day of his burial.

Maia examines the armillary sphere after dark and discovers a blank seventh band engraved only with the name Merope.

Bel's father refuses Heitor de Silva Costa's request to allow Bel to travel to Europe with his family.

Bel attends art classes with Margarida at the Beaux-Arts and secretly explores the bohemian cafes of Montparnasse.

Laurent casts Bel's and Margarida's hands as competing templates for Christ the Redeemer's outstretched hands.

Bel returns to Rio and discovers her mother has been secretly battling breast cancer throughout her absence.

Gustavo inadvertently reunites Bel and Laurent by purchasing Laurent's sculpture of Bel as a wedding gift and inviting him to a dinner party.

A doctor confirms that Bel's mother's cancer has returned and spread to her other organs, leaving her with a terminal illness.

Bel's mother dies and both Gustavo and Louiza respond to Bel's grief with cold indifference.

Bel's father is bankrupted overnight by the catastrophic global economic crash.

Beatriz tells Maia that Cristina stole family heirlooms, became addicted to drugs, and eventually abandoned baby Maia at an orphanage.

Floriano takes Maia shopping for a colorful dress and the two share their first kiss after dancing together at a samba club.

Beatriz decides to leave Casa das Orquídeas and the family's country house to Maia upon her death.

Floriano and Maia travel together to Lake Geneva so he can see Atlantis for the first time.

The gathering of Maia's sisters at Atlantis reveals the strange circumstances of Pa Salt's death and deepens the mystery of his legacy, including a blank seventh band on the armillary sphere. Bel's path to Europe is obstructed by her father's initial refusal, making Gustavo's eventual proposal and promise of the trip her only viable escape. Once in Paris, Bel flourishes in bohemian circles with Margarida, and Laurent's casting of her hands quietly binds her to the Cristo statue in ways neither of them yet understand. Back in Rio, her mother's terminal diagnosis and the Great Depression's devastation of her father's fortune tighten the walls of her world, while Gustavo's impulsive purchase of Laurent's sculpture inadvertently reignites the romance that changes everything. In 2007, Beatriz finally breaks her silence to reveal the painful truth about Cristina's addiction and Maia's abandonment at the orphanage. Maia and Floriano's relationship reaches a turning point during a night of dancing in Rio, building toward the declaration that will change her life.

The supporting events and complications shaping both women's worlds.

Maia retrieves the moonstone necklace from her childhood bedroom and wears it for the first time.

Maia reads Pa Salt's letter and suspects, from certain lines, that he knew about the pregnancy she kept secret from the family.

Floriano shows Maia birth, marriage, and death records that confirm she is descended from the aristocratic Aires Cabral family.

Bel confesses to her mother that she does not love Gustavo but will marry him to please her family.

Bel agrees to Gustavo's marriage proposal, calculating that it is her only opportunity to travel to Europe.

The Landowski family takes in the injured street child rescued by Bel, and the boy tells her he will always remember her kindness.

Paul Landowski unknowingly selects Bel's hand cast over Margarida's as the definitive template for Christ the Redeemer's hands.

Bel's dying mother reveals on her deathbed that she has guessed about Bel and Laurent's love and begs her daughter to give Gustavo a chance.

Bel discovers she is pregnant and tells Laurent, who urges her to abandon everything and flee to Paris with him.

Bel writes her name and Laurent's onto a soapstone Cristo tile, planning to send it as a final message through Loen.

Gustavo intercepts Bel's farewell note to Laurent via Loen but decides silently to keep their secret and remain married.

Maia confides in Floriano about her relationship with Zed and the son she gave up for adoption, crying from shame and grief.

Beatriz reveals she sought out Laurent in Paris as the sculptor of her mother's statue, never knowing he was her biological father.

Maia and Floriano discover a miniature Cristo sculpture signed by Paul Landowski inside Pa Salt's previously locked study.

Maia visits Georg to arrange for the Aires Cabral properties to pass to her son and leaves a letter in case he ever searches for her.

Maia's investigation begins with two quietly significant moments: finding the moonstone necklace and suspecting Pa Salt knew the secret she had carried alone for fourteen years. Floriano's archival research then confirms her bloodline, while Bel's past unfolds through a series of pivotal choices, beginning with her calculated decision to accept Gustavo's proposal as the price of freedom. In Paris, a street child's rescue triggers Bel and Laurent's first kiss, and the Landowski family's adoption of that same child plants the seed of the man who will one day become Pa Salt. The affair's crisis arrives when Bel discovers she is pregnant and must choose between love and stability, a reckoning made final when Gustavo silently intercepts her farewell note. In 2007, Maia's act of confiding in Floriano about her own surrendered son mirrors Bel's courage across the decades, and a cascade of revelations about Laurent, Beatriz, and Pa Salt's true origins brings both timelines to rest. Maia finally steps out of fear and takes deliberate action to leave something behind for the son she has never stopped grieving.